In the middle ages, the main practitioners of medicine were "barber surgeons", barbers that were also surgeons and dentists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barb

In the middle ages, the main practitioners of medicine were "barber surgeons", barbers that were also surgeons and dentists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon Also, all this was done in a very unsanitary way. In fact medicine was unsanitary in the West until Florence Nightingale conducted an statistical survey showing that cleaner spaces had fewer mortality rates.