The Scottish Heraldic Gazetteer

Arms on west end

GAZETTEER NO.

GLA_0083.03

ARMS

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF GLASGOW

BLAZON

Quarterly, 1st & 4th, [Azure]; an Aesculpian rod in pale between a lancet on the dexter and a poppy slipped and seeded on the sinister all Proper; 2nd, [Or]; a lion rampant [Gules] armed and langued [Azure] within a double tressure flory counterflory of the Second (Scotland); 3rd, [Argent]; on a mount in base [Vert] an oak tree Proper, the stem at the base thereof surmounted of a salmon on its back also Proper with a signet ring in its mouth [Or], on the top of the tree a redbreast and in the sinister fess point an ancient handbell, both Proper (City of Glasgow )

CREST

an antique lamp on an open book

SUPPORTERS

(dexter): Minerva, the Roman goddess of science and art (sinister): Hygeneia, the Greek goddess of health

MOTTO

CONJURAT AMICE (on scroll above) (We live together in friendship) NON VIVERE SED VALERE VITA (on scroll below) (not simply to live but to enjoy life)

DATE OF ARMS

1910

DATE OF BUILDING OR MEMORIAL

1925

CONDITION

Very Good

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