55:, even when there was no intention of adopting medicine as a profession... The aim was to produce not a practitioner but a scholar, not craftmanship but erudition. Instruction in medicine, while it might be slight, was associated with a course in arts and philosophy. The person who received a degree of was doctus in medicina - learned in medicine - but not necessarily a skilled practitioner of the craft".
66:, later renamed the Regius Chair in Medicine. That appears to have been merged with the earlier title of "professor of medicine" (1700) and "mediciner" (1522). Although technically "regally founded" by dint of being established following the inception of King's College, there is no evidence that it was known as the "Regius Chair of Medicine" prior to 1858.
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