Excerpt from The Royal Medical, and Chirurgical Society of London Centenary 1805-1905 Written at the Request of the President and Council

Linacre, who in 1518 founded the College of Physicians, may be accounted the first parent of all Medical Societies in London. If we look back beyond Linacre, we may trace their origin to the Academies of the Renaissance in Italy, which he took as his model: and they, in their turn, were modelled on the Academies of Ancient Greece.

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