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The barber-surgeons of yesteryear.(The Providence Journal)
In London's Barbican district, in Monkswell Square just north of the ancient city walls, there is an elegant meeting hall called the Company of Barber-Surgeons. Its spacious chambers and courts are now rented out solely for occasional banquets and other ceremonial purposes.
This imposingly beautiful Italianate structure is a reconstruction of the original hall destroyed during the German aerial bombings of World War II. The rebuilt hall, a faithfully fashioned copy of the old, consists of the great Livery Hall, a surgical amphitheater, a dining area and numerous museum rooms housing the relics and memorabilia of an ancient skill called barber-surgery.
All is faithfully preserved to remind visitors of a hectic yet vibrant element in the evolution of Western medicine.
The improbable beginnings of barber-surgery are embedded in the 1163 Council of Tours edicts of Pope Alexander III. The pope had declared that the shedding of blood, for any ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The barber-surgeons of yesteryear.(The Providence Journal)