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From this time dates the escape of medicine from ecclesiastical authority.

In 1452, Cardinal d’Estouteville, charged by the Pope with the reorganization of the University of Paris, obtained a revocation of the order obliging celibacy, claiming it to be “impious and senseless” in the case of doctors.

It was at this moment that the Faculty of Physicians renounced the hospitality of the University and installed themselves in a house on the Rue de la Bucherie, the same being graciously tendered them by Jacques Desparts, physician to the King. This faculty now opened a register of its acts, which later became the Commentaries of the Society, and, already confident of a brilliant future and its own strength, the college engraved on its escutcheon these words: “Urbi et Orbi Salus,” and declared itself the guardian of antique morality; veteris disciplinæ retinentissima. Soon the dean of the faculty obtained from royalty the right to coin medals, the same being bestowed on physicians who rendered valuable public services; these bore the imprint of the college coat of arms, and Guy Patin went so far as to issue his own coined effigy in 1632 A.D.