Regius Professor of Medicine (Aberdeen)

The Regius Professor of Medicine is an appointment held at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland and was formally founded in 1858 by Queen Victoria.

The university of Aberdeen, however, states that this professorship was founded in 1497 and is the oldest regius chair in the English speaking world.[1] That claim is based upon the establishment at King's College, Aberdeen, at the end of the 15th century of a teaching post known as the "Mediciner". The first recorded Mediciner was John Cumyne, appointed before 1522[2]:143 but the role lapsed between 1571 and 1619 and it is stated that there were no lectures between 1793 and 1838.[3]

The role of the Mediciner was much broader than the later concept of "professor of medicine" and described as follows:

"The study of medicine was, as has been mentioned in connection with the monasteries, regarded as an important branch of scholarship. At this time it was usual for well-educated men to include a knowledge of physic among their literary and philosophical studies, even when there was no intention of adopting medicine as a profession... The aim was to produce not a practitioner but a scholar, not craftmaship 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" [2]

The first "professor of medicine" at Aberdeen was at Marischal College in 1700 (first held by Patrick Chalmers). The formal establishment of a "Regius Chair" in medicine was in 1858 under the title of Regius Chair in Materia Medica,[2]:159 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 Kings College, there is no evidence that it was known as the "Regius Chair of Medicine" prior to 1858.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 2 "Eminent cardiologist appointed to top post". University of Aberdeen. 24 February 2010. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Comrie, John D (1927). "Chapter 9: The Medical School of Aberdeen". History of Scottish Medicine to 1860 (PDF). London: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.
  3. ↑ Dennison, E. Patricia, ed. (2002). Aberdeen before 1800: a new history. East Linton: Tuckwell press. p. 198. ISBN 9781862321199.
  4. ↑ "Obituary: David W Finlay". Br Med J. 2: 949. 17 November 1923. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.3281.949. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  5. ↑ M Steven (February 2010). "Rheumatology in Scotland – The Next Generation" (PDF). 55 (1). Scottish Medical Journal: 38. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  6. ↑ J. S. Robson, rev. H. C. G. Matthew (2004), "Davidson, Sir (Leybourne) Stanley Patrick (1894–1981)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edn, Oct 2009 ed.), Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31008, retrieved 17 March 2013
  7. ↑ "Contributors", New Scientist (333), p. 47, 4 April 1963, retrieved 17 March 2013
  8. ↑ Professor Owen (8 May 1997). "Obituary: Sir Robert Stevenson Aitken". The Herald. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  9. ↑ H. W. Fullerton (July 1966), "The Medical Faculty of the University of Aberdeen: A Brief Historical Note" (PDF), Postgrad Med J, BMJ, 42, pp. 401–402, retrieved 17 March 2013
  10. ↑ "Obituary: HW Fullerton". Br Med J. 25 July 1970. p. 229. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  11. ↑ "Alexander Stuart Douglas". Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  12. ↑ "Alexander Stuart Douglas" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  13. ↑ "Professor Richard Himsworth". Anglia Ruskin University. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  14. ↑ "Richard Himsworth". Girton College. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  15. ↑ "Coordinator and Scientist-in-charge". Medical University of Vienna. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
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