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Thomas Linacre

First president of the Royal College of Physicians of London probable contested

Dates
c. 1460-1524 (source: Goddard, Uroscopy (Urology News) )
Chapters
IV. The Flask

Contested

One account credits him with a College statute forbidding diagnosis from urine alone; no statute text has been found, and a version dated 1555 cannot be his, since he died in 1524.

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