or medic, medical, medico, subs. (medical).—A medical man. Also a student.

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  1823.  The Crayon (Yale College), p. 23. Who sent The MEDIC to our aid!

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  1850.  Yale Banger [HALL], Nov.

        Seniors, Juniors, Freshmen blue,
And MEDICS sing the anthem too.

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  1853.  Songs of Yale, p. 16.

        Take … Sixteen interesting ‘MEDS.,’
With dirty hands and towzeled heads.

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  1864.  D. MASSON, in Macmillan’s Magazine, Dec., p. 124. Those minute physiognomic differences, which enable an expert to distinguish a jolly young MEDICAL from a prematurely-sharp leguleian.

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  1885.  B. G. WILDER, Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, xii. MEDIC is the legitimate paronym of medicus, but is commonly regarded as slang.

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  1889.  The Lancet, 13 July [No. 3437], p. 96. The London ‘MEDICALS’ were quite as popular.

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  1890.  Answers, 25 Dec. She did her exercise and work and had her meals alone, and during the whole of that period the only persons she spoke to were the governor (known in prison as the ‘boss’), the chaplain (in prison parlance ‘sky pilot’), the MEDICO (doctor), and the ‘screw’ (female warder).

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