| If you lived in the Middle
Ages, you'd go to your barber for shaves, haircuts
- and tooth extractions. Since barbers performed both
haircutting and surgery, they were called barber-surgeons.
Barber-surgeons formed their first organization in
France in 1094, and were admitted to the faculty of
the University of Paris in 1505. The familiar red,
white and blue striped barber pole originated around
this time. One interpretation is that the red stripe
represented arterial blood, blue represented venous
blood and the white represented bandages. |
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