Original Linnaean Dissertations
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.
