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===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
The arms were officially granted | The arms were officially granted in 1994. | ||
The shield showsa golden maunch, a medieval sleeve which is a traditional heraldic device and coincidentally colonic in shape. The silver border suggests colonic haustrations. James Thomson, Honorary Secretary at the time, requested a Lockhart-Mummery probe | The shield showsa golden maunch, a medieval sleeve which is a traditional heraldic device and coincidentally colonic in shape. The silver border suggests colonic haustrations. James Thomson, Honorary Secretary at the time, requested a Lockhart-Mummery probe in the shield centre. | ||
The crest features John of Arderne, a medieval surgeon from Newark and the “father of coloproctology”, representing the evolution of the ACPGBI from its origins in the Section. This was based on an Elizabethan depiction of the trade, see below. | |||
[[File:{{PAGENAME}}1.jpg|center|400 px|Arms of {{PAGENAME}}]] | |||
In both the patient hosting the fistula in the original Elizabethan depiction is missing other than a “sequere me” probe disappearing into an external opening and John of Arderne’s “digitus index sinister” at the internal opening. The College of Arms described the left index finger as “imbrued” (stained), and were not made aware of where it had actually been. | |||
missing other than a “sequere me” probe disappearing into an external opening and John of | |||
Arderne’s “digitus index sinister” at the internal opening | |||
described the left index finger as “imbrued” (stained), and were not made aware of where it | |||
had actually been. | |||
The motto was conjured in 1991. Translated, ‘Porro a Tergo’ is, aptly, “Forwards from Behind.” | |||
{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Literature]] : | [[Literature]] : Brown, S.R. et al: Thirty years of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. Congress article, 2020. | ||
[[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1994]] |
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