a doctor, a physician ...1570
from classical Latin medicus (a physician)
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1570 - see EXAMPLE below
"...Ask Medicus councel, ere medeen ye make,
and honour that man, for necessities sake.
Though thousāds hate phisick, because of the cost,
yet thousands it helpeth, that else should be lost..."
From: A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandry lately Maried vnto a Hundreth Good Poynts of Huswifery: newly corrected and amplified with dyuers proper lessons for Housholders, as by the table at the latter ende, more plainly may appeare
- Thomas Tusser