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(1888) [MARC] Author: Albert Alberg
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The Floral King. 151

passes it in the summer, when it has got something
else.

“The cows can eat it during winter, after it has
been moistened with warm water, but still they
would rather eat straw, and the milk becomes insipid
(sapor fatuus) from it, which any peasant in Vester-
botten knows.”

Linnzus put great faith in the taste and smell of
medicinal remedies, and two treatises were published
under his presidium, probably written by himself
Sapor Medicamentorum (1751) and Odores Medicamen-
torum (1752).

To P. Extvius, Upsata, 1747.

“DEAR SIR,

“T had a letter by to-day’s mail from Med.
Studiosus, Hasselqvist, who entertains some hope
that he may be sent to Terram Sanctam. I would
fain write for him to our Mecenates Scientiarum, to
the Academy, to you, and others, but truly I feel
ashamed, who have never learnt to be impudent; I
feel also myself an abhorence for those who are

never content. I have got enough these times from

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