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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 to replace the (aesthetically more pleasing) Brodie’s version in the shield centre. The motto, an heraldic | |||
pun, was conjured (in English) during the RSM Overseas visit to Budapest and Vienna in | |||
1991, while in transit on the Danube. Andrew Shorthouse arranged a translation by his | |||
son’s Latin master. Translated, ‘Porro a Tergo’ is, aptly, “Forwards from Behind.” | |||
Recognition by the College of Arms, London, in the form of Letters Patent granted in 1994 | |||
was expensive (it would cost £13,500 today) but unanimously agreed by Council. | |||
Andrew Shorthouse was | |||
approached to submit a traditional design which was approved at the AGM in Harrogate in | |||
1991. The crest featured 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. | |||
(figure 3). 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 (Figure 3). The College of Arms | |||
described the left index finger as “imbrued” (stained), and were not made aware of where it | |||
had actually been. | |||
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