Barber surgeon
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barber-surgeon-174-16681860
title:
Barber surgeon
text:
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, possessing razors and dexterity indispensable to their trade, were called upon for numerous tasks ranging from cutting hair to pulling teeth to amputating limbs. In this period, surgical mortality was very high due to blood loss, shock and infectio
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of surgeon recruited as barbers
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon
date created:
2004-08-29T14:56:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T23:15:34Z
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