Book Of Traceable Heraldic Art

Urinal

See also: Urinal in Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry.

Urinal In A Basket §

A phial of bodily fluid caried in a wire enclosure. Visual analysis of a patient's urine was an important diagnostic tool in medieval medicine.

Default orientation: upright. No proper coloration.

Source: Heraldry For the Local Historian and Genealogist. Artist unknown. (Arms of Dr Louys Caerlyon, 1483.)