Linnaeus discusses how the contents of the two chairs in medicine at Uppsala University, held by Nils Rosén von Rosenstein and Linnaeus respectively, might be amended. If botany went from Rosén von Rosenstein to Linnaeus then Rosén von Rosenstein could choose some component from Linnaeus’s list. Linnaeus suggests that he should have botany. Linnaeus would be prepared to take on botany even if Rosén von Rosenstein did not take any part from Linnaeus’s list.
Should there by a complete change Linnaeus would, however, not wish to take on anatomy.
Linnaeus’s proposal for a change which he finds natural would be, under the title Corpus humanum, anatomy, physiology, pathology, semiotics and practice and, under the title Materia medicae, botany, natural history, pharmacology, chemistry, dietics.
Rosén would then become professor of medicine and anatomy and Linnaeus professor medicine and botany.