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  2. Barber surgeon - Wikipedia

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    Barber surgeon. Franz Anton Maulbertsch's The Quack (c. 1785) shows barber surgeons at work. 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 ...

  3. Barber's pole - Wikipedia

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    Barber shop in Torquay, Devon, England, with red and white pole. A barber's pole is a type of sign used by barbers to signify the place or shop where they perform their craft. The trade sign is, by a tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, a staff or pole with a helix of colored stripes (often red and white in many countries, but usually red ...

  4. Worshipful Company of Barbers - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Terraria - Wikipedia

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    Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Terraria ( / təˈrɛəriə / ⓘ tə-RAIR-ee-ə[1]) is a 2011 action-adventure sandbox game developed by Re-Logic. The game was first released for Windows and has since been ported to other PC and console platforms. The game features exploration, crafting, building, painting, and combat with a variety of ...

  6. Ambroise Paré - Wikipedia

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    Barber Surgery. Ambroise Paré (French pronunciation: [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. He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield ...

  7. Barber surgeon of Avebury - Wikipedia

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    The re-erected Barber Stone. The barber surgeon of Avebury is a skeleton discovered in 1938 at Avebury henge monument in Wiltshire, England. The body was found underneath a buried megalith by archaeologist Alexander Keiller in 1938. It was dated by coins to the early 14th century, and identified as a barber surgeon by a pair of scissors and a ...

  8. List of barbers - Wikipedia

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    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] Johnny Niggeling — a ...

  9. Barber - Wikipedia

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    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.