The following are a few of the instances on record which have been collected by Calraet {Diss, sur la Sueur
<lu San;/), 'Millingen, Stroud, Trusen (Die Sitten. Gebrdu- che uiid Kriiiikheiten d. all. Ihbr. [Brcslau, 1853]), ia addition to those given under Bloody Swi';at. Schen- kius {Obs. .!/('(/. iii, 458) says that in the plague of Mise- no in 1554 a woinan who was seized sweated blood for three days. In 1552 Conrad Lycosthenes {l)e Prodigi- is, p. 023, ed. 1557) reports, a woman sick of the plague sweated blood from the upper part of her body. Ac- cording to De Thou ( I, xi, 32(5, ed. 102(1 ), the gov- ernor of Montemaro, being seized by stratagem and threatened with death, was so moved thereat that he sweated blood and water. In the Melanges d'llistoire, (iii, 179), by Doin Bonaventure d'Argonne, the case is given of a woman who suft'ered so much from this mal- ady that, after her death, no blood was found in her veins. Another case of a girl of eighteen who suffered in the same way is reported by Mesaporiti, a physician at Genoa, accompanied by the observations of Valisneri, professor of medicine at Padua. It occurred in 1703 {Phil. Trans. No. 3(J3, p. 2144). There is still, however, wanted a well-authenticated instance in modern times observed with all the care and attested by all the ex- actness of later medical science. That given in Cas- par's Wochenschrift, 1848, as having been observed by Dr. Schneider, appears to be the most recent, and re- sembles the phenomenon mentioned by Theophrastus {London Med. Guz. 1848, ii, 953). For further reference to authorities, see Copeland, Diet, of Medicine, ii, 72. — Smith.
STwedberg, Jesper, bishop of Skara, in Sweden. His father's name was Jacobson, but, according to a fre- quent Swedish custom, the son, on taking his degree at the university, assumed the name of Swedberg. He was born Aug. 28, 1653, in the province of Dalecarlia. Hav- ing received a university education, he was ordained in 1085, and became successively court chaplain, professor of theology in the University of Upsala (1092), and provost of the cathedral there. He was a pious, elo- quent, and active man, a somewhat voluminous writer, chiefly on devotional subjects. He stood high in his native country, and many of his hymns are still among the favorite ones in the Swedish Lutheran service. He was the father of Emanuel Swedenborg. He was made bishop of Skara in 1702, about the time that he visited England. The Swedish Church in London and the Swedish congregations settled on the banks of the Dela- ware, in America, were placed by the king under his episcopal supervision ; and his letters to the latter col- ony, still preserved in the records of the Church at Wil- mington, show a warm interest in their affairs. From the information which he had obtained from this cor- respondence he pid)lished a work concerning America, a copy of which is in the library of Harvard College. He also published a Psalm-Book (1694), which was sup- pressed as pietistic ; and the first Swedish Grammar (1722). Bishop Swedberg died July 26, 1735. (W.B.H.)
Sweden, a kingdom in the northern part of Eu- rope. In conjunction with Norway it forms the Scan- dinavian peninsula, occupying itself the larger part of this peninsula. Its geographical position is between hit. 553 20' and 69° N. and long. 11° 10' and 24° 10' E., and it extends not far from 1000 miles from north to south, and in its greatest breadth 300 miles from east to west. It is bounded on the north by Norwegian Lap- land, east by Russia, south by the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic, and west by the Sound, the Cattegat, and Norway. The country has the characteristic features of all northern regions. Many parts of it, especially in the north, are barren and unproductive. Its immense forests are a source of great revenue, the wood being used not only for fuel, but entering quite generally into the construction of the exterior as well as the interior parts of all buildings, and furnishing also a profitable article for export. All the grains peculiar to northern countries are raised in Sweden, not only in sufficient quantity for hoiiie consumption, but also for export.
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In some of the metals it is very rich, and no small part of the wealth of the country comes from the workhig of mines of gold, silver, iron, copjier, etc. The clescrif)- tion which has been given of Norway, so far as the natural productions of the country arc concerned, will apply to Sweden, and renders any minute detail in this respect unnecessary. See Norway.
The great political divisions of Sweden are three — Gothland, Svealand, and Norrland. (iothland has thir- teen subdivisions, Svealand eight, and Norrlantl live — the whole giving an area of 171,730 square miles, and having a population of a little more tlian four millions and a cpiarter. The largest city is Stockholm, having a population in 1874 of nearly 150,000. The only oth- er city of considerable size in Sweden is Gothenburg, which has a population of over G0,000; but there is quite a large number of cities and towns having a pop- ulation of over fi.OOO.