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The barber surgeon, one of the most common European medical practitioners of the Middle Ages, was generally charged with caring for soldiers during and after battle. In this era, surgery was seldom conducted by physicians, but instead by barbers , who, possessing razors and dexterity indispensable to their trade, were called upon for numerous ...
This is a list of barbers and barber surgeons. Ambroise Paré — a pioneering surgeon of 16th century France when barbers also performed surgery. [1] Hugo E. Vogel — Wisconsin assemblyman and barber for more than fifty years [2] Johanna Hedén — a midwife who became the first female barber surgeon in Sweden [3]
Ambroise Paré (French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz paʁe]; c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III.
Franz Anton Maulbertsch's The Quack (c. 1785) shows barber surgeons at work. Doctor Antonio Fernando de Medrano was a 17th-century Spanish barber-surgeon, highly skilled in minor surgery, bloodletting, and dental extractions. He was already practicing his trade in Madrid by 1639. [1]
A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards. A barber's place of work is known as a barbershop or the barber's. Barbershops have been noted places of social interaction and public discourse since at least classical antiquity. In some instances, barbershops were also public forums.
The Worshipful Company of Barbers is one of the livery companies of the City of London, and ranks 17th in precedence.. The Fellowship of Surgeons merged with the Barbers' Company in 1540, forming the Company of Barbers and Surgeons, but after the rising professionalism of the trade broke away in 1745 to form what would become the Royal College of Surgeons.
Pierre-Joseph Desault was born in Vouhenans, Franche-Comté.He was destined for a career in the Church, but his own inclination was towards the study of medicine; after learning something from the barber-surgeon of his native village, he was settled as an apprentice in the military hospital of Belfort, where he acquired some knowledge of anatomy and military surgery.
Davies was a native of Hereford, and became a barber-surgeon of London.He states that he was a gentleman by birth, and served in many naval and military operations. [1]On 28 January 1597–8, he sailed in a trading-ship (the Francis) from Saltash, Cornwall, and reached Cività Vecchia, the port of Rome.