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Respondent: Johan Gråberg (1741–1793)

Title: ... de Haemoptysi, ...

Date of Defense: 13 May 1767

Paginations: [iii], [1], 5-14

Lidén Title: Haemoptysis.

Soulsby Title: Haemopt.

Drake Title: De Haemoptysi.

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Abstract: A medical essay on spitting of blood, a condition which Linnaeus held should not be confused with other bleeding from the mouth, since it was of pulmonary origin and not from the nose or stomach. Tuberculosis of the lungs is given as its primary cause.

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Respondent: Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828)

Title: ... de Venis resorbentibus ...

Date of Defense: 2 June 1767

Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-10

Lidén Title: Venae resorbentes.

Soulsby Title: Ven. resorb.

Drake Title: Venis Resorbentibus.

Note:

Abstract: A medico-physiological study of the interrelationship of the lymphatic system and the vascular anatomy.

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Respondent: Henric Gahn (1747–1816)

Title: Fundamenta Agrostographiae ...

Date of Defense: 27 June 1767

Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-38, tabs. 1-2

Lidén Title: Fundamenta agrostographiae.

Soulsby Title: Fund. agrost.

Drake Title: Fundamenta Agrostographiae.

Note:

Abstract: Provides a classified list of some 850 species of grasses of economic importance, preceded by a history of prior studies of grasses.

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Respondent: Carl Gustaf Laurin (1737–1773)

Title: ... de Menthae usu, ...

Date of Defense: 30 June 1767

Paginations: [v], [1], 3-11, [1]

Lidén Title: Menthae usus.

Soulsby Title: Menthae

Drake Title: Menthae Usus.

Note:

Abstract: An essay on the kinds of mints (Mentha spp.) useful in medicinal preparations.

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Respondent: Anders Johan Blad (1748–1834)

Title: Fundamenta Entomologiae, ...

Date of Defense: {14} June 1767

Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-34

Lidén Title: Fundamenta entomologiae.

Soulsby Title: Fund. entom.

Drake Title: Fundamenta Entomologiae.

Note: Both copies lack day --Soulsby gives day as [XIV].

Abstract: Provides an historical review of entomology with a list of 32 pre-Linnaean authors, instructions on how to collect and preserve insects, and the fundamentals of their classification.

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Respondent: Johan Adolph Wadström (1748–1809)

Title: ... sistens Metamorphosin Humanam, ...

Date of Defense: 16 December 1767

Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-18, 1 table

Lidén Title: Metamorphis [sic] humana.

Soulsby Title: Metam. hum.

Drake Title: Metamorphosis Humana.

Note:

Abstract: A classification establishing 12 periods through which the human body develops from birth to death, based on anatomical, physiological and pathological factors.

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Respondent: Adolph Fredric Wedenberg (1743–1828)

Title: ... de Varietate Ciborum ...

Date of Defense: 19 December 1767

Paginations: [iii], 4-19, [1]

Lidén Title: Varietas ciborum.

Soulsby Title: Var. cib.

Drake Title: De Varietate Ciborum.

Note: One copy has day altered in manuscript to {18} (i.e., changed from XIX to XIIX). One copy contains a correction on p. 8, line 15: Arata is corrected to Aurata.

Abstract: A medico-nutritional essay on the wide range of foodstuffs eaten by man and a classification of these foods into 10 groups. Discusses effects of diets in which each group dominates and the diseases which might result. Linnaeus' concluding advice is "Ne quid nimis," nothing in excess.

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Respondent: Henrik Tonning (1732–1796)

Title: ... sistens Rariora Norvegiae ...

Date of Defense: 27 February 1768

Paginations: [vi], [1], 2-19, [1] (1 text figure)

Lidén Title: Rariora norvegiae.

Soulsby Title: Rar. Norv.

Drake Title: Rariora Norvegiae.

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Abstract: A treatise on the natural history of Norway, with credits to Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718-1773), Bishop of Trondheim and to J. Ström of Bergen. Presented are lists of rare animals and plants, with emphasis on those not found in Sweden. Report is given also of fruits of tropical American plants deposited from the sea along the coast in quantity. Among them are seeds of Cassia, Anacardium (cashew nuts), Cucurbita lagenaria L., the coconut, and Piscidia erythrina L. Included is an interpretation by Bishop Gunnerus of the identity of a sea-serpent, presuming it to be a number of sturgeon swimming in a row. Medicinal plants are enumerated separately, with notes on their uses. The thesis concludes with a description of an African plant named Gunnera L.

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Respondent: Jöns Flygare (1746–1806)

Title: ... de Coloniis Plantarum, ...

Date of Defense: 15 June 1768

Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-13

Lidén Title: Coloniae plantarum.

Soulsby Title: Colon. pl.

Drake Title: Coloniis Plantarum.

Note:

Abstract: Treats the migrations and colonizations of plants, in Sweden and elsewhere.

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Respondent: Johan Grysselius (1738–1788)

Title: ... de Medico sui ipsius, ...

Date of Defense: {11} January 1768

Paginations: [i], [1], 3-12

Lidén Title: Medicus sui ipsius.

Soulsby Title: Medicus

Drake Title: Medico Sui Ipsius.

Note: Our copy has day supplied in manuscript; month is printed as Jun. [Soulsby says January].

Abstract: An essay on being one's own physician, the abuses that are injurious to a healthy constitution and the diseases for which each one may be the causal agent.

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Respondent: Carl Henriksson Wänman (1733–1797)

Title: ... de Morbis Nautorum Indiae, ...

Date of Defense: 5 November 1768

Paginations: [i], [1], 3-4

Lidén Title: Morbi nautarum Indiae.

Soulsby Title: Morb. naut.

Drake Title: Morbis Nautarum Indiae.

Note:

Abstract: This brief work concerns diseases observed during a voyage to the East Indies.

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Respondent: Anders Sparrman (1748–1820)

Title: ... sistens iter in Chinam ...

Date of Defense: 30 November 1768

Paginations: [iii], [1], 5-16

Lidén Title: Iter in Chinam.

Soulsby Title: Iter Chin.

Drake Title: Iter in Chinam.

Note:

Abstract: An enumeration of natural history subjects observed by Sparrman during his voyage to China.

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Respondent: Carl Johan Luut (1746–1816)

Title: Flora Åkeroensis, ...

Date of Defense: 23 December 1769

Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-20

Lidén Title: Flora åkeröensis.

Soulsby Title: Fl. Åker.

Drake Title: Flora Åkeröensis.

Note:

Abstract: An enumeration of 478 species of plants on the island of Åkerö, in Lake Yngaren, in the province of Södermandland in southeast Sweden.

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Respondent: Johan A. Dahlgren (1744–1797)

Title: ... de Erica ...

Date of Defense: 19 December 1770

Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-15, [1], 1 plate

Lidén Title: Erica.

Soulsby Title: Erica

Drake Title: Erica.

Note: P. 14 misnumbered 10.

Abstract: An account of the genus Erica, noting species found in Europe, the tropics and South Africa.

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Respondent: Georg Hallenberg (1746–1814)

Title: ... de Dulcamara ...

Date of Defense: 29 May 1771

Paginations: [i], [1], 3-14

Lidén Title: Dulcamara.

Soulsby Title: Dulcamara

Drake Title: Dulcamara.

Note:

Abstract: The herb Solanum dulcamara L. (nightshade, or deadly nightshade) was used as an internal medicine and as a heart stimulant by Linnaeus in the Royal Naval Hospital, Stockholm, in 1738.

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Respondent: Daniel Henric Söderberg (1750–1781)

Title: Pandora et Flora Rybyensis, ...

Date of Defense: 26 June 1771

Paginations: [iv], [1], 6-23, [1]

Lidén Title: Pandora et flora rybyensis.

Soulsby Title: Pand. fl. Ryb.

Drake Title: Pandora & Flora Rybyensis.

Note:

Abstract: A record of the plants and insects observed by Söderberg at Ryby (near Stockholm), the residence of Linnaeus' closest friend, Abraham Bäck (1713-1795).

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Respondent: Adolf Murray (1751–1803)

Title: Fundamenta Testaceologiae ...

Date of Defense: 29 June 1771

Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-43, tabs. I, II

Lidén Title: Fundamenta testaceologiae.

Soulsby Title: Fund. test.

Drake Title: Fundamenta Testaceologiae.

Note:

Abstract: A monograph of mollusks and other shellfish, with details on their structure, terminology, physiology and classification. Includes a history of pre-Linnaean conchology with brief biographical notes on the authors of that literature.

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Respondent: Pehr Cornelius Tillaeus (1747–1827)

Title: ... de varia Febrium intermittentium curatione, ...

Date of Defense: 11 December 1771

Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-56, [2]

Lidén Title: Febrium intermittentium curatio varia.

Soulsby Title: Febr. interm.

Drake Title: Varia Febrium Intermittentium Curatione.

Note:

Abstract: On the causes and cures of intermittent fever.

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Respondent: Jonas Ullholm (1746–1819)

Title: Respiratio Diaetetica, ...

Date of Defense: 29 April 1772

Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-26

Lidén Title: Respiratio diaetetica.

Soulsby Title: Resp. diaet.

Drake Title: Respiratio Diaetetica.

Note:

Abstract: An essay on the kinds of air alleged to be most beneficial to health, accompanied by an explanation of the respiratory process and the anatomy of the lungs.

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Respondent: Ernst Joachim (Magnus) von Heidenstam (1745–1803)

Title: ... de Haemorrhagiis ex Plethora, ...

Date of Defense: 23 May 1772

Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-32

Lidén Title: Haemorrhagia ex plethora.

Soulsby Title: Haemor. pleth.

Drake Title: Haemorrhagiis ex Plethora.

Note:

Abstract: An essay on bleeding caused by a greater volume of blood in the circulatory sytem than the heart can accommodate and keep in constant circulation.

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Respondent: Sven Anders Hedin (1750–1821)

Title: Fraga vesca ...

Date of Defense: 26 May 1772

Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-13, [1]

Lidén Title: Fraga vesca.

Soulsby Title: Fraga

Drake Title: Fraga Vesca.

Note:

Abstract: On the medical usefulness of strawberries (Fragaria vesca L.) in the treatment of gout, based largely on Linnaeus' favorable findings when so treating himself in the summers of 1750 and 1751.

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Respondent: Johan Lindwall (1743–1796)

Title: Observationes in Materiam medicam, ...

Date of Defense: 5 June 1772

Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-8

Lidén Title: Observationes in materiam medicam.

Soulsby Title: Obs. mat. med.

Drake Title: Observationes in Materiam Medicam.

Note:

Abstract: A compendium on the medicinal and pharmacological uses of the enumerated species of plants, to which is appended a second listing of species of only putative therapeutic value. Linnaeus supported in this thesis the opinion that medicinal qualities of plants often are correlated with a group of species having common botanical affinities.

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Respondent: Christian Ernst Boecler (1742–1800)

Title: De Suturis Vulnerum in genere ...

Date of Defense: 27 June 1772

Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-21, [1]

Lidén Title: Suturae vulnerum.

Soulsby Title: Sutur. vuln.

Drake Title: Suturis Vulnerum in Genere.

Note: One copy has [iv] preliminary pages, not [ii].

Abstract: On the different methods of sewing up wounds.

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Respondent: Johan Hornborg (1750 – ?)

Title: Planta cimicifuga, ...

Date of Defense: { } September 1774

Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-10, 1 plate

Lidén Title: Planta cimicifuga.

Soulsby Title: Cimicifuga

Drake Title: Planta Cimicifuga.

Note: One copy lacks day.

Abstract: A medico-botanical account of the genus Cimicifuga L. (Ranunculaceae), and especially of the Eurasian species.

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Respondent: Petrus Holmberger (1745–1807)

Title: ... de Esca Avium Domesticarum, ...

Date of Defense: {26} November 1774

Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-15

Lidén Title: Esca avium domesticarum.

Soulsby Title: Esca avium

Drake Title: Esca Avium Domesticarum.

Note: One copy has day supplied in manuscript and corrections on p. 15 which have been incorporated in the 1785

Abstract: An account of the results of experiments directed to ascertain what kinds and numbers of insects and seeds are eaten by poultry.

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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.

Note:

Abstract: On the medicinal properties of the Mediterranean shrub Teucrium marum L. (Labiatae).

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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.

Note:

Abstract: A dissertation on the medical use and botany of ipecac root, Hybanthus ipecacuana.

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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),

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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]

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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]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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