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In order to become a member of the company, apprentice training would occur for seven years within the household of an experienced barber-surgeon; apprentices would assist in surgical care and gain hands-on experience in tasks such as setting bones and suturing wounds. Once completed, the new member
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to keep order amongst his fellows. Barbers originally aided monks, who were at the time the traditional practitioners of medicine and surgery, because papal decrees prohibited members of religious orders themselves from spilling blood. In addition to haircutting, hairdressing, and shaving, barbers
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Fellowship of Surgeons merged with the Barbers' Company in 1540 by Act of Parliament to form the Company of Barbers and Surgeons. The Act specified that no surgeon could cut hair or shave another and that no barber could practice surgery; the only common activity was to be the extraction of
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performed surgery: neck manipulation; cleansing of ears and scalp; draining/lancing of boils, fistulae, and cysts with wicks; bloodletting and leeching; fire cupping; enemas; and the extraction of teeth.
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in 1666, as it kept the fire away from that side of the building. However, the anatomy theatre was the only
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372:"The Company of Barbers and Surgeons"
350:From/through the Foreknowledge of God
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125:Worshipful Company of Barbers
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216:Hans Holbein the Younger
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729:Ironmongers
699:Fishmongers
348:(Latin for
271:Inigo Jones
178:barber pole
176:teeth. The
77:before 1308
1335:Categories
1305:51°31′05″N
1124:Launderers
1084:Air Pilots
1074:Solicitors
1024:Distillers
994:Feltmakers
904:Fruiterers
899:Scriveners
839:Innholders
809:Carpenters
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357:References
289:Roman wall
197:Henry VIII
137:precedence
1308:0°05′41″W
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1149:Engineers
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1129:Marketors
1059:Fanmakers
1044:Gunmakers
1009:Gardeners
929:Musicians
924:Upholders
919:Broderers
874:Fletchers
759:Pewterers
564:(2): 65.
277:in 1636.
275:John Webb
233:in 1800.
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1154:Fuellers
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954:Farriers
849:Poulters
844:Founders
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794:Girdlers
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709:Skinners
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61:Location
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894:Woolmen
889:Weavers
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859:Coopers
769:Cutlers
764:Barbers
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664:in the
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155:History
131:of the
112:Website
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