Royal College of Physicians Royal College of Physicians of London

Founding of the Society
Year	Authority / Notes
1518	In 1518, a "small group of distinguished physicians, led by the scholar and humanist Thomas Linacre, petitioned" King Henry VIII "to be incorporated into a College similar to those found in a number of other European countries." "In 1523 an Act of Parliament extended the College's influence and licensing powers from London to the whole of England." "The publication by the College of the first of ten editions of the London Pharmacopoeia in 1618 provided a cornerstone for regulating the composition of medicines that was to last until 1864." These dates are supported by its website ().
Seat of the Society
City	Authority / Notes
London England	This location is supported by its website ().
Name of the Society
Dates	Name	Authority
1518 -	Royal College of Physicians of London	Its website ().
1518 -	Royal College of Physicians [During some or all of this time, it was also known by this name.]	Its website ().
Royal College of Physicians .

Journals of the Society
Years	Full Journal Title	Abbrev.
1518 - 1915 (48 vols.)   A	Annals of the Royal College of Physicians, 1518-1915 The publishing information for the microfiche copy at the Harvard Univ.cat. is: Microfiche. Calcott, Reading, Berkshire, England : Adam Matthew, 1991. 417 microfiches. This was evidently not published over the centuries, but appears instead to be a collection published after 1915 (perhaps in 1991) based on the archives of the Royal College of Physicians. [Harvard Univ. cat.]	Ann. Roy. Coll. Physicians [Bull. Hist. Med., Winter 2001, Vol. 75, No. 4, p.671 cites 1765]
1768 - 1820 (v.1 - v.6)   B	Medical Transactions, published by the College of Physicians in London Published 1785-1830. Indexed Reuss & RSLC [Univ. Chicago cat.; Harvard Univ. cat.]	M. Tr. Roy. Coll. Physicians London [Bull. Hist. Med., Vol. 41, No. 2 (MARCH-APRIL, 1967), p.133 cites 1813,4.] Med. Trans. [Phil. Trans., Vol. 86 (1796), p.283 cites Vol. III.] Med. Trans. [RSLC, v.1, p.l] Med. Trans. R Coll Physicians [Ethnicity & Disease, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer, 1993), p.312 cites 1772, 2.] Med. Transact. of the College of Physic. in London [Reuss, v.16, p.41 cites Vol.6.] Medical Transact. [Reuss, v.10, p.75 cites vol.2] Medical Transact. by the College of Physic. in London [Reuss, v.16, p.18 cites Vol.6.]
1966 -   C	Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London [Univ. Chicago cat.; Harvard Univ. cat.]	J R Coll Physicians [Brit. Med. J., Vol. 286, No. 6377 (May 14, 1983), p.1567 cites 1983, 17.] J R Coll Physicians Lond. [Brit. Med. J., Vol. 283, No. 6297 (Oct. 10, 1981), p.936 cites 1972, 7.] J R Coll Physicians London [Brit. Med. J., Vol. 302, No. 6771 (Feb. 2, 1991), p.293 cites 1990, 24.] J. Roy. Coll. Physicians [Envir. Health Perspect., Vol. 41 (Oct., 1981), p.151 cites 1976, 10.] J Roy Coll Physicians Lond [Brit. Med. J., Vol. 288, No. 6421 (Mar. 24, 1984), p.934 cites 1981, 15.] J. Roy. Coll. Physicians London [Bull. Hist. Med., Spring 2008, Vol. 82, No. 1, p.72 cites 1998, 32.]