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the Austrian General, Count Mercy, on his campaign in
Italy (1734). And now comes the great turning-point of
his life. King Stanislas of Poland had taken notice of
him and appointed him Royal Physician. As a member of
his suite he travelled from Königsberg to Berlin and the
Netherlands (1736), was created a “ conseiller intime,”
and entrusted with the chief superintendence of the whole
sanitary arrangements and medical institutions of
Alsace-Lorraine. As such he displayed the most remarkable
activity founding a medical college at Nancy, supporting and
advising the medical faculty at Pont-a-Mousson, improving
hospitals and apothecaries’ shops, and carrying on an
enormous correspondence with many of the famous men
of the day. After the death of King Stanislas in 1765 he
was seized with a desire of returning to his native country.
In vain did the Queen of France make him the most
brilliant offers if he would remain in Alsace or Paris. He
remained firm. Endowed with a pension of four thousand
livres for life, he journeyed home in 1767, where he was
made President of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm.
He died in 1787, eighty-eight years old, leaving many
legacies for scientific purposes, and a name which did not
need the gold medal struck in his memory to save it from
oblivion.1
As the Gahns are connected with Falun, so too the
Leyels are similarly connected with the great iron-works
of Sweden. We know that one, Jacob Leyel, son of
Patrick Leyel, u ballivus de Arbrochs,” came to Sweden
in 1638, together with two brothers, David and Henry.
Henry’s son Adam was a member of the Board of Mining
and a lord-lieutenant. He was ennobled in 1717, and died
in 1744. David’s son, another David, was likewise a
1 For a list of other medical men of Scottish blood in Sweden, see
Appendix.
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