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    The barber surgeon, one of the most common European medical practitioners of the Middle Ages, was generally charged with caring for soldiers during and...
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    The barber surgeon of Avebury is a skeleton discovered in 1938 at Avebury henge monument in Wiltshire, England. The body was found underneath a buried...
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    Dentist (redirect from Dental surgeon)
    and qualified dental surgeons from lay barbers. Guild barbers were trained to do complex surgeries. The second group, the lay barbers, were qualified to...
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    discussions about contemporary issues. In previous times, barbers (known as barber surgeons) also performed surgery and dentistry. With the development...
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    of Barbers is one of the livery companies of the City of London, and ranks 17th in precedence. The Fellowship of Surgeons merged with the Barbers' Company...
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    of Barbers (incorporated 1462) and the Guild of Surgeons to form the Company of Barber-Surgeons. In 1745 the surgeons broke away from the barbers to form...
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  • with a serpent like the amulet the barber-surgeon carried. The amulet was crushed, along with the barber-surgeon; however, his bones were later removed...
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    corporations in the world and traces its origins to 1505 when the Barber Surgeons of Edinburgh were formally incorporated by the then Edinburgh Town...
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    physiology, the professions of barbers and surgeons diverged; by the 19th century barber-surgeons had virtually disappeared, and surgeons were almost invariably...
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    This is a list of barbers and barber surgeons. Ambroise Paré — a pioneering surgeon of 16th century France when barbers also performed surgery. Hugo E...
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    formation of the United Barber Surgeon's Company in England, a statute required the barber to use a red and white pole and the surgeon to use a red pole. In...
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    Ambroise Paré (category French surgeons)
    Paré (French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz paʁe]; c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and...
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    The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution (French: Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile) is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with...
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    September 1622 – Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, 11 February 1697) was a barber-surgeon and the father of Georg Frideric Handel. Händel's father, Valentin Händel...
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  • appointment, Thomas Alleyn had become a citizen of London and was a barber-surgeon of London. When Edward Alleyn laid out the Deed of Foundation of the...
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  • perch, also called the barber sea perch or Tasmanian barber Barber surgeon, a medical practitioner of medieval Europe Barber paradox, a paradox in logic...
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    also staffed by a barber-surgeon who tended to the sick and wounded, along with an apprentice or mate and possibly also a junior surgeon. The only positively...
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    mind after being exposed to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars as a barber surgeon. The String of Pearls (1847), a melodrama by George Dibdin Pitt that...
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    been a travelling barber-surgeon who journeyed between market towns offering his services. It appears that the death of the barber-surgeon prevented the locals...
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    apprenticed to a barber in Halle at the age of 14 after his father died. When he was 20, he married the widow of the official barber-surgeon of a suburb of...
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  • Peter Chamberlen the elder (category English surgeons)
    Peter Chamberlen the elder (c.1560–1631) was a French barber-surgeon who grew up in England and worked in London. With an interest in obstetrics, he was...
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  • (fl. 1598–1614) was an English barber-surgeon and traveller. Davies was a native of Hereford, and became a barber-surgeon of London. He states that he was...
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  • likelihood of hostilities). In the Tudor period, surgeons were regulated by the Company of Barber-Surgeons. William Clowes, sometime Warden of the Company...
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    was first written, a semi-common trade was what was termed a barber-surgeon. Barber-surgeons were medical practitioners trained not by schooling but by...
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    depicts a woman attempting to revive a man with smelling salts, as a barber-surgeon watches. Long missing, it was identified when offered for auction in...
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  • taken by the only one who wants him: a traveling barber-surgeon who goes only by the name of Barber. He is a fleshy man with fleshy appetites and a very...
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    collection at the El Pardo Palace. It is now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. It shows a barber surgeon carrying out a trepanation. "Catalogue entry". v t e...
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    Rembrandt's Unconscious Patient (Allegory of Smell) shows a woman using smelling salts to revive a man who has fainted at the hands of a barber-surgeon....
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    Danielle Guizio, Solid & Striped, Urbanic, Thursday Boots, SuperOrdinary, Barber Surgeon Guild, Faena Hotel + Universe, Jawbone, and Poppin. He became a billionaire...
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    the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. It shows a village barber surgeon pulling out a villager's tooth. Typically for the artist, the scene...
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