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Grant of arms for the Royal College of Physicians, 1546.
The Royal College of Physicians was founded by royal charter on 23rd September 1518 with ‘a view to the improvement and more orderly exercise of the art of physic, and the repression of irregular, unlearned, and incompetent practitioners of that faculty’. The first president was Thomas Linacre (1460-1524), physician to Henry VII and Henry VIII, and he gave the college use of his own London house joust south of St Paul’s.
In 1546 the college received the grant of arms shown here. Highly decorated, the grant shows a herald pointing to the shield on which is the college’s blazon. An arm descends from a cloud to feel the pulse of a patient; the object below is a pomegranate which was believed to cure agues.
Grant of arms for the Royal College of Physicians, 1546.
The Royal College of Physicians was founded by royal charter on 23rd September 1518 with ‘a view to the improvement and more orderly exercise of the art of physic, and the repression of irregular, unlearned, and incompetent practitioners of that faculty’. The first president was Thomas Linacre (1460-1524), physician to Henry VII and Henry VIII, and he gave the college use of his own London house joust south of St Paul’s.
In 1546 the college received the grant of arms shown here. Highly decorated, the grant shows a herald pointing to the shield on which is the college’s blazon. An arm descends from a cloud to feel the pulse of a patient; the object below is a pomegranate which was believed to cure agues.