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Formal recognition of surgeons' skills (in England at least) goes back to 1540, [13] when the Fellowship of Surgeons (who existed as a distinct profession but were not "Doctors/Physicians" for reasons including that, as a trade, they were trained by apprenticeship rather than academically) merged with the Company of Barbers, a London livery ...
The Worshipful Company 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 in 1540, forming the Company of Barbers and Surgeons, but after the rising professionalism of the trade broke away in 1745 to form what would become the Royal College of Surgeons.
Pierre-Joseph Desault was born in Vouhenans, Franche-Comté.He was destined for a career in the Church, but his own inclination was towards the study of medicine; after learning something from the barber-surgeon of his native village, he was settled as an apprentice in the military hospital of Belfort, where he acquired some knowledge of anatomy and military surgery.
During the treatment, barber-surgeons would give patients poles to hold. Grasping the staff made their veins pop out a bit, making them easier to find while the barbers went all Sweeney Todd.
Portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger In this picture from the 1540s by Hans Holbein of the granting of the charter to the barber surgeons, Chambre appears just to the left of Henry VIII. He is witnessing the giving of the sealed charter into the hand of Thomas Vicary .
Georg Händel (1622–1697) The small organ in the Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels Georg Händel (German: ⓘ; Halle, Archbishopric of Magdeburg, 24 September 1622 – Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, 11 February 1697) was a barber-surgeon and the father of Georg Frideric Handel.
After the expedition he settled in London, living in Silver Street (which he mentions in his Antidotarie of 1589), not far from the Hall of the Barber-Surgeons. In 1588 he and Clowes are associated in the dedication of John Read's Translation of Arceus. They saw many cases together, and in 1591 T. P., a patient of theirs, praised both surgeons ...
Wallis [citation needed] suggests a social hierarchy with these university educated physicians on top, followed by "learned surgeons; craft-trained surgeons; barber surgeons, who combined bloodletting with the removal of "superfluities" from the skin and head; itinerant specialist such as dentist and oculists; empirics; midwives; clergy who ...