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ON POISONOUS PLANTS
Original Latin: "De Plantis Venenatis"
BY PERMISSION OF THE EXPERIENCED MEDICAL FACULTY OF UPPSALA
UNDER THE PRESIDENCY OF
C. P. THUNBERG
Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828) was a celebrated Swedish naturalist and "the father of South African botany."
KNIGHT COMMANDER OF THE ROYAL ORDER OF VASA;
DOCTOR OF MEDICINE; ROYAL AND ORDINARY PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AND BOTANY; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF HEALTH;
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF ST. PETERSBURG AND THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL INQUIRERS; THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF SCIENCES OF UPPSALA, LONDON, AND STOCKHOLM; THE AGRICULTURAL, MEDICAL, AND EVANGELICAL SOCIETIES; THE ECONOMIC SOCIETIES OF UPPSALA, STOCKHOLM, AND FINLAND; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE SOCIETIES OF VERMLAND, JÖNKÖPING, VÄSTERÅS, KALMAR, AND ÖREBRO;
THE NATURAL RESEARCH SOCIETIES OF BERLIN, LEIPZIG, PARIS, COPENHAGEN, MOSCOW, AND HALLE; THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES OF GORENKI, PHILADELPHIA, LUND, HAARLEM, AMSTERDAM; THE ECONOMIC AND LITERARY INSTITUTES OF ZEELAND, TRONDHEIM, ZURICH, AND JENA; THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON AND THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY;
THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND PHYTOGRAPHY OF GÖTTINGEN; THE SOCIETIES OF SCIENCES OF GOTHENBURG, MUNICH, ERLANGEN, WETTERAU, NANCY, MARBURG; THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF PARIS; THE EMULATION AND LINNEAN SOCIETIES OF MONTPELLIER; THE MEDICAL ACADEMY OF MADRID; THE MEDICAL AND NATURAL STUDENT SOCIETIES OF EDINBURGH AND ST. PETERSBURG; THE MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETIES; MEMBER AND CORRESPONDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF PARIS AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE; THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF PARIS; THE MEDICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON, SCANDINAVIA, FLORENCE, AND THE DUTCH EAST INDIES.
This extensive list of titles demonstrates the global prestige of the professor overseeing the defense.
FOR THE MEDICAL DEGREE
PUBLICLY PRESENTED BY
NICOL. JOH. LJUNGBERG
Royal Scholar from Småland.
IN THE BOTANICAL AUDITORIUM ON THE 22ND DAY OF MAY, 1822
AT THE CUSTOMARY HOURS
PART I.
Missouri Botanical Garden.
Library ownership stamp from 1887.
UPPSALA 1887 1822
PRINTED BY THE TYPOGRAPHERS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY
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