Linnaeus's notes for his course of lectures on the system of diseases.
Different diseases are numbered according to the numeration of the second edition of "Genera morborum" (1763).
One (or more) pages per genus, in the same layout as the preparatory manuscript of 'Species plantarum' (LM/LP/BOT/3/4/1). Some pages have been left empty for lack of information on the disease.
The manuscript comprises drafts written at different periods of time, as the differences in writing, ink and paper indicate.
Contents:
Folder 1: Praefatio, list of illnesses, with corresponding Latin and Swedish names, dichotomous diagrams of disease classification.
Folder 2: Class I. Exanthematici
Folder 3: Class II. Critici
Folder 4: Class III. Phlogistici
Folder 5: Class IV. Dolorosi
Folder 6: Class V. Mentales
Folder 7: Class VI. Quietales
Folder 8: Class VII. Motorici
Folder 9: Class VIII. Suppressori
Folder 10: Class IX. Evacuatorii
Folder 11: Class X. Deformes
Folder 12: Class XI. Vitia
Folder 13: Class XI. Vitia cont.
Observations:
- On many pages are numbers corresponding to the disease (genus) number in Genera morborum. The number corresponding to the first edition (1759) is often crossed out and replaced with that from the second (1763) edition.- p. 186: draft of a letter of recommendation for Matts Löfman, who worked as a gardener's hand in the botanical garden for the last 4 years and is moving on to another post. Dated Uppsala, 28 August 1756.
- Linnaeus provides the Swedish name of the illness next to the Latin one.
- Linnaeus tries out visual ways of explaining quaternal fever, p. 209.
- Annotations by Linnaeus filius, who might have used his father's lecture notes for his own lectures: pp. 42, 145, 197, 364, 531, 564, 622, 653, 663, 672, 716, 765, 786, 964
- Includes case studies, inserted within the lecture notes: p. 421: (23 Sept. 1738) of 'hyponchondriatis' in an amanuensis hand; p. 433: Captain Laurin, 50 years old, 12 June 1747, in Linnaeus's hand.
- 'pro memoria' on hypochondria, signed N. Dahlerus or Dablerus, p. 423.
- p. 434: beginning of the preface to "Flora Zeylanica".
- between pp 590 and 591 are 4 printed sheets on 'Epilepsia', from "De methodo medicinam discendi"
- p. 601: account of 'Raphania' in Smoland, in an amanuensis hand. See LM/LP/MED/1/3/5 'Dragsjuka', on ergotism, and the dissertation "Raphania" defended by Rothman in 1763. This page is possibly part of the preparation for the dissertation.
- Dates of lectures given by Linnaeus, and annotated on some pages:
p. 275: Febr. 19
p 289: Febr. 23
p 294: Febr. 23
p 335: Febr. 25
p. 358: Mart. 1
p. 453: Febr. 18
p. 762: Mart. 2
p. 781: Mart. 4
p. 821: Mart. 26
p. 822: Mart. 29
p. 828: Mart. 30
It is possible that these pages (and others not dated) actually correspond to the 1741-1742 lectures (LM/LP/MED/1/3/3) - the months correspond and so does the paper and watermarks. However, since this manuscript has been entirely paginated, it was decided to leave it as it was found.