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iv. education and . mental culture.
emigration investigation directed by G. Sundbärg (partition of land etc.) and E.
Heckscher (born 1879; professor in political economy and statistics at the High
School of Commerce in Stockholm).
Mathematical statistics have been dealt with by G. Eneström (born 1852) and
C. V. L. Charlier (born 1862, professor in astronomy at Lund).
Certain statistical writers are naturally to be found in the special provinces,
in which their chief research falls, and in these cases reference in this volume
should, in the first instance, be made to the sections on History, Political
Economy, Medicine, etc.
Several private or public institutions with an activity more or less statistical
have among their officials persons who have prominently contributed to the
development of statistics in Sweden. An enumeration here would lead too far.
The above mentioned list of collaborators in the present work, compared with
the table of contents, will give a rather comprehensive account in this respect.
Medical Sciences.
Thanks to the quality of the teaching imparted to medical students in
Sweden by eminent professors and clinicians, the standard attained by Swedish
medical practitioners is a very high one, fully up to that prevalent in the larger
civilized countries; medical research too in Sweden has won for itself a
well-grounded reputation abroad. In the last few decades, moreover, great liberality
has been evinced in regard to hospitals, excellently equipped institutions of that
nature having been erected in many parts of Sweden.
Olof Rudbeck the Elder.
In Sweden, as elsewhere, the study of Anatomy has gone hand in hand with
that of medical science generally, the basis of the latter being a knowledge of the
human body. The first teaching in Anatomy of which any record has come down
to us, was that imparted at the beginning of the seventeenth century at a private
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