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Respondent: Johan Adolph Dahlgren (1744–1797)
Title: ... de Maro ...
Date of Defense: 3 December 1774
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-18
Lidén Title: Marum.
Soulsby Title: Marum
Drake Title: De Maro.
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Abstract: On the medicinal properties of the Mediterranean shrub Teucrium marum L. (Labiatae).
Respondent: Daniel Wickman (1741–1800)
Title: ... de Viola Ipecacuanha, ...
Date of Defense: 16 December 1774
Paginations: [iii], [1], 5-12
Lidén Title: Viola Ipecacuanhae.
Soulsby Title: Viola ipecac.
Drake Title: Viola Ipecacuanha.
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Abstract: A dissertation on the medical use and botany of ipecac root, Hybanthus ipecacuana.
Respondent: Jacob Alm (1754–1821)
Title: Plantae Surinamenses, ...
Date of Defense: 23 June 1775
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-18, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Plantae surinamenses.
Soulsby Title: Pl. Surin.
Drake Title: Plantae Surinamenses.
Note:
Abstract: An account of a collection of herbarium specimens of Surinam (Dutch Guiana) plants, given to Linnaeus by Sweden's King Gustavus III. Many of the new species were later included by Carl von Linné fil. in his Supplementum plantarum systematis vegetabilium (1781),
Respondent: Johan Peter Westring (1753–1833)
Title: ... de Ledo palustri, ...
Date of Defense: 25 October 1775
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-18
Lidén Title: Ledum palustre.
Soulsby Title: Ledum
Drake Title: De Ledo Palustri.
Note:
Abstract: An essay on the botany and history, as well as the medicinal and pharmacological properties, associated with the shrub of northern bogs, Ledu palustre L. (Ericaceae), noting that its aromatic odor is offensive to most insects and herbivorous animals and reporting its alleged effectiveness in the treatment of leprosy in Kamtschatka.
Respondent: Georg Eberhard Georgii (1755–1816)
Title: Opium, ...
Date of Defense: 15 November 1775
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-17, [1]
Lidén Title: Opium.
Soulsby Title: Opium
Drake Title: Opium.
Note:
Abstract: A medical essay on the properties and medicinal uses of opium, based substantially on a 1757 study by Balthsar Ludwig Tralles (1708-1797).
Respondent: Ernst Diedrich Salomon (1746–1790)
Title: ... de Scorbuto, ...
Date of Defense: {22} November 1775
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-23
Lidén Title: Scorbutus.
Soulsby Title: Scorb.
Drake Title: De Scorbuto.
Note:
Abstract: An essay on scurvy, which reports that in Sweden, scurvy is rare in districts where meat and vegetables are eaten, but common in those places where fish is predominant in the diet. Linnaeus concluded the cure to be vegetables, especially from his class Tetradynamie, which includes cider, fruits and cinchona bark.
Respondent: John Rotheram (1751–1804)
Title: Medicamenta Purgantia ...
Date of Defense: 22 November 1775
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-24
Lidén Title: Medicamenta purgantia.
Soulsby Title: Med. purg.
Drake Title: Medicamenta Purgantia.
Note: Day supplied in manuscript in both copies.
Abstract: A compendium of materia medica restricted to those medications (mostly of plant origin) useful as purgatives.
Respondent: Nils Avellan (1749–1780)
Title: ... de Perspiratione insensibili, ...
Date of Defense: {25} November 1775
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-11
Lidén Title: Perspiratio insensibilis.
Soulsby Title: Persp. insen.
Drake Title: Perspiratione Insensibili.
Note: Both copies have day supplied in manuscript.
Abstract: [Abstract not available]
Respondent: Sven Anders Hedin (1750–1821)
Title: Canones Medici, ...
Date of Defense: 29 November 1775
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-12
Lidén Title: Canones medicae.
Soulsby Title: Canones med.
Drake Title: Canones Medici.
Note:
Abstract: [Abstract not available]
Respondent: Anders Dahl (1751–1789)
Title: ... Bigas Insectorum sistens, ...
Date of Defense: 18 December 1775
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-7, [1], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Bigae insectorum.
Soulsby Title: Bigas insect.
Drake Title: Diss. Entomol. Bigas Insectorum sistens.
Note:
Abstract: This work provides descriptions of two new genera of insects, Diopsis (a dipterous fly) and Paussus, from the collection of John Fothergill, M.D. (1712-1780), who sent much New World material to Linnaeus.
Respondent: Erik Acharius (1757–1819)
Title: Planta Aphyteia, ...
Date of Defense: 22 June 1776
Paginations: [iv], [1], 6-12, [1], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Planta Aphyteia.
Soulsby Title: Aphyteia
Drake Title: Planta Aphyteia.
Note:
Abstract: An account of Hydnora africana Thunb. (Hydnoraceae), a leafless parasite discovered by Carl Peter Thunberg in South Africa. This dissertation is the last over which Linnaeus acted as praeses.
Respondent: Carl Niclas Hellens (1745–1820)
Title: Hypericum, ...
Date of Defense: 20 November 1776
Paginations: [iv], [2], 3-14, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Hypericum.
Soulsby Title: Hypericum
Drake Title: Hypericum.
Note:
Abstract: A monograph of the plant genus Hypericum, in which are named and described 35 species. Detailed notes are given on H. Perforatum L. and its medicinal properties as a febrifuge. Carl von Linné fil. acted as praeses.
