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The School of Medicine, Yale University
Registration number 20060928F
This certifies that the heraldic arms of The School of Medicine, Yale University are registered as an original design and are described by the blazon below
Arms: Vert an Aesculapian staff Or a chief ermine a saltire Gules.
Source
Yale website: http://www.med.yale.edu/ysm/about/shield.html
Design reationale
The arms of Elihu Yale, the East India merchant and benefactor after whom Yale College is named, are featured on the upper portion of the school's arms. The upper arms consist of an ermine field, white with small black stylized tails and the red cross of St. Patrick, called a saltire. The lower portion of the arms has a green background, the academic color for medicine, with a single Aesculapian serpent, which also signifies medicine.
Registered by
Michael Swanson
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