What was a medical practitioner of the Middle Ages called?
Correct answer: Barber surgeon
Snance
Sounds like one stop shopping! Get a nice haircut, and have an appendage removed. Bet they had great magazines in the waiting room...
Mars V
Theodoric of York, medieval barber.
bigden
This practice carried over to old west America. If you got shot, your cowboy friends took you to the barbershop to have bullet dug out.
riddlemethis
Sweeney Todd !!
little b
I've not heard of the barber surgeon
CoolE
Because he was both a barber and a surgeon.
RushMama2112
J, exactly! It represents the bloody bandages. Kinda gross, really ;)
J
That’s why a traditional Barbers pole outside the shop was Red and White
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Snance, You are very funny. I’m reading your remarks with tears in my eyes. ( being male). ! ! !
Ken
and antibiotics