In the Middle Ages, surgery was usually performed by members of which trade?
Correct answer: Barbers
Larajayneedwards
They didn't mention that's why barbers still have the red and blue stripey pole... Representing the hair cut and blood for surgery!
Bjach
Like a lot of the questions in this game I don't know how or why I knew that but I did!!! I like this game. It also brings back tons of memories. Hat's off to the developer's. Great game.
WaldoLydeker
I love this game. What seals it, are the explanations. "Jeopardy" gives the answer and moves on. This one piques your interest and triggers memories, or related trivia, which you can post. Or read others' comments. The barber-monastery connection is a hoot!
limerentserendipity
Who else thought tailors cause tailors can do stitches🤣😂
DaveGundërsen
Guzzi Gal, It was called "Theodoric, Barber of York". It featured Bill Murray, Loraine Newman, and Jane Curtain.
Bill Murray: "Theodoric, Barber of York? I was partying at the Festival of the Vernal Equinox. I must have drank a little too much mead, and I broke my leg, darting out in front of an oxcart."
Steve Martin: "Don't worry, you'll feel better after a good bleeding."
Bill: "But I'm already bleeding."
Steve: (incredulous) "Saaaay... Who's the barber here?"
MALICE
Red represents arterial blood, blue veous blood and white stands for the bandages...
ilovesloths1981
The only reason I got this right was because I watched Dr Quinn Medicine Woman and the town's barber was their "doctor" before Quinn came.
UnicornFireStar
My great-grandad was a barber who used to dispense medical treatments. I have his hand-written A-Z book with lists of ailments and treatments including one for baldness !
His barber shop is where the men used to gather instead of the pub and would discuss intellectual matters there. So I'm told, though of course you can have intellectual debates in the pub!
OzzysUndies
Larajayneedwards, I think you mean the red and white pole, red for blood and white for bandages.
Player 007007
I'm a barber, just like my father before me. I still have his teeth pulling tools. The blue stripe you see nowadays on barbers pole's is a modern addition to make them more colourful but should only be red and white. In 52 years I've never accidentally cut anyone and of the occasions I know about where accidents have occurred It was due to the client not keeping still. I often have to ask my clients to keep still ! Sometimes having to hold there heads still with one hand whilst I cur their hair with the other.
GB
Bjach, I agree.. this is the best quiz
GB
Gulp..no anaesthesia and blunt scissors.. thank goodness for progress!
BadMomma
Bjach, probably because you read it in another answer.
Ro
Larajayneedwards, it is also why in the UK surgeons are referred to as Mr and not Dr and goes back to the time when they were not part of the medical profession and formed their own royal college
Tony
I knew this because of Westerns and the barber poke where they would go to have teeth pulled. Aren't you glad we have real dentists and surgeons these days?
CA Cloudmaker
Ah! The good ol’ days!
Sandhya
I couldn't help myself 😀😀
Mark
Now we ain't kidding when we tell our barber, a little off the ears but leave the ears when you're done 🤣
Helen Back
One of my favorite Plays...Sweeney Todd
Wannabe Vulcan
DonMercs, Fleet Street.
Wannabe Vulcan
Jonesy, where?
Wannabe Vulcan
Cha Cha, think how efficient surgery would be with zippers.
Wannabe Vulcan
Steven in UK, check out the hospital scene in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home".
Wannabe Vulcan
Player #44614086, even early surgeons didn't see the value of studying anatomy.
Wannabe Vulcan
MFG, the first time I was swabbed, I kept thinking of the Egyptians scooping the brain out through the nose to make a mummy.
Wannabe Vulcan
Player #3874355, at least as far back as the Hippocratic Oath.
Val
ilovesloths1981, omg!!! That’s the only reason I knew the answer as well! Bahahahaa…
Dancer
Larajayneedwards, Also, the red blood and white for bandages wrapped around a limb.
Giggle pig
“I’ll take a little off the top, and an appendectomy, please!”
Neila
Geeee… Right now I’m thinking of Johnny Depp….lol
Jan
DaveGundërsen, Yup, SNL education got me these points, too! There was a great one with Steve Martin, too.
Putin Sux
I daresay people 100/150/200 years from now will be aghast at some of the surgical procedures we carry out today.
Ray
I can't imagine my barber or hair stylist doing surgery at all! Nowadays, they learn more indepth hair techniques such as color and permanents.
Phil 'sum guy'
is that Why I don't like getting a haircut ? 😃
Jaazee2
Player 007007, Thanks for the knowledge regarding the colors
Tugboat
Best trivia game yet. it is very educational.
Player #38396803
Larajayneedwards, Originating in Medieval Europe the poles are still red and white in most countries but the US added blue
MFG
Steven in UK 🇬🇧, The way they take samples from our noses seem pretty barbaric right now!
Player #44886177
not true. it was blacksmiths. there were no barbers yet
Player #44614086
Butchers also did operations because of their knowledge of internal organs