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a store of new ideas carefully noted down in his diary.
From his first appointment as physician of the town of
Gefle he was promoted to the post of physician to the
Swedish squadron then lying at Stockholm, and later to
that of Head Physician of the Royal Military Academy at
Karlberg. In his private practice he enjoyed unbounded
confidence, and his authority was undisputed. He was the
first who used vaccination in Sweden, and many
improvements in the way of erecting military hospital-barracks are
due to him. Full of years and rich in honours, he died on
the 6th of February, 1846.1
The last doctor of medicine who deserves a notice in
this place for his great merits and his extraordinary career
is Casten Rönnow. After his father had died in 1710
during the plague, the son, being then twelve years old,
was sent to his uncle, an army doctor, Johann Rönnow, at
Göteborg. All his life he had a love for a military life.
In 1716 he was present in the campaign against Norway,
and gained so much praise for his prudence and resolution
that the king offered him the responsible post of one of
his war-secretaries. It was only in 1720, after his return
to Stockholm, that he finally adopted the profession of
medicine, and especially that of surgery. Provided with
travelling scholarships, he now commenced his continental
u tour of instruction,” which took him through Denmark
and Germany to Paris, where he remained for seven years.
A great part of his time he spent there in drawing the
beautiful plates in Le Dran’s Book on Lithotomy, a work
which increased his fame so much that the English
physician Douglas invited him to London to assist him in
his anatomical work. Professor Winslow also tried to
enlist his services. But Rönnow declined. He had in the
meanwhile taken his M.D. at Rheims, and accompanied
1 Sv. Biogr. Lex. Ny Följd.
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