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Lest we forget, for surgeries & blood letting with a more positive outcome, the comon men went to ask the barber (thus the blood stained rotating poles). Doctor

• hef19898 4y ago
  By modern defibitions, doctors during medival period were more theologs than medical professionals. Barbers and mid wifes were the people to go to. Whej it came to non-organ surgery those were surprisingly good, guven theblimited knowledge and means they worked with.
• 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
  in my city, there has been a centures old tradition of old greek medicine which is actually practices still today in small cases. the barber is interesting because our physicians were doctors of greek medicine while the surgeons were called literally "barbers" or "naevid" in kashmiri. these were the two types of medical professionals until modern medicine was brought by christian missionaries around 200 years ago.
• ekianjo 4y ago
  > Doctors were really something only nobility could employ. Not true. The concept of hospices civils existed for centuries in western europe and were usually supported by religious organizations.