SURGEONS, THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF, of the City of Edinburgh.

SURGEONS, THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF, of the City of Edinburgh. Azure, a human body fessways betwixt a dexter hand, having an eye on the palm issuing out of a cloud downward in chief, and in base a castle situated on a rock, all proper, within a bordure or, charged with several instruments indicative of the art also proper ; on a canton of the first, a St Andrew's cross argent, charged with a thistle proper, and in chief of the canton an imperial crown or. Mantling — Azure doubled or. Crest — The sun dissipating a cloud all proper, and in an escrol above the same this Motto — " Hinc sanitas," and on a compartment below the shield are placed for supporters, on the dexter side yEsculapius vested argent, mantled azure, crowned with laurel, holding in his right hand a baton reaching down to his foot, wreathed about by a serpent proper, armed gules, and on the sinister side Hippocrates vested as the other with a mantle gules, on his head a bonnet sable, holding in his left hand a book expanded proper.

[Matriculated in Lyon Register, c. 1672-7, and again June 11, 1897. The arms are to all intents and purposes the same as matriculated c. 1672-7 (see above), but the wording of the blazon varies slightly, the earlier blazon being: —

" Azure, a man (human body) fesseways between a dexter hand, having an eye on the palm issuing out of a cloud downward in chief and in base a castle situated on a rock all proper, within a bordure or, charged with several instruments indicative of the art also proper, on a canton of the first a St Andrew cross argent, charged with a thistle proper, and in chief of the canton an imperial crown of the third.]

The arms for the Surgeons engraved on the badge of the Deacon Convener [refer sub Edinburgh] are as above but the body is placed on a fesse argent.

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