It’s no surprise that the history of medicine had a rocky and somewhat gruesome journey before reaching its current, modern state. From the earliest meddling in surgery in Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages and a much more brutal and crude way of dealing with illness and injury
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For his work in forensic pathology, pioneering surgical techniques, battlefield medicine and wound care, and developing new surgical instruments, Ambroise Paré is the best known of the barber surgeons and has been called the father of modern surgery (Fig 1). Although Paré was not the first to use a vascular ligature, as he is commonly credited, he promoted it more than any of his predecessors and contemporaries. He also developed what was likely the first vascular clamp.
Guilhemus Fabricius Hildanus, Hektoen, George Dunea, Spring 2015, Surgery
Bloodletting set of a Barber Surgeon, beginning of 19th Century, Märkisches Museum Berlin
Georg Bartisch dedicated his life to the study and treatment of the eye and its diseases. Born in Königsbrück, Saxony in 1535, Bartisch was apprenticed to a barber surgeon at the age of thirteen. After three years training, he set off to ply his trade as an itinerant surgeon—carrying out operations, amputations, and diagnosing illness amongst the populace of Saxony, Silesia, and Bohemia. Medicine at this time was still prone to a belief in the superstitious. Bartisch believed a patient could be diagnosed through their astrological chart or horoscope and that magic, astrology and indeed witchcraft itself played an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. His main interest was ophthalmology. Though never academically trained, Bartisch excelled in his study of eye diseases and their cures, and was recognized as a leading expert in ocular medicine and surgery. One can imagine how brutal and painful such procedures would have been at this time when there was very poor hygiene and no anaesthetics. Bartisch also believed myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism could be corrected by the wearing of masks rather than by the use of eyeglasses (see illustrations below). He believed a glass held in front of the...
Anom., Barber-Surgeons, 1581 On July 24, 1540 Henry VIII by an Act of Parliament licensed the merger the Worshipful Company of Barbers ...
Artist: Lucas van Leyden | Print: The Surgeon | Original Medium: engraving
The history of the barber pole is as intertwined with the history of the barber-surgeons as the red and white (and sometimes blue) stripes that adorn it.
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George Chapman was a Polish barber/surgeon who poisoned three of his wives. He lived and worked in the basement of the White Hart pub at the end of this road. Executed in 1903, Inspector Abberline also thought that he may have been Jack the Ripper.
By Anthony Cody When critics such as myself point out the very bad effects the Common Core tests are having, as they label more than two thirds of our children unready for college and career, we ar…
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A number of years ago I found myself standing before a painting of a female patient in bed, surrounded by guests and various attendants. On...
