barber-surgeon

It might be fairer to say that the sort of condition a barber-surgeon would treat was inherently more treatable with premodern technology than the sort of condition a physician would treat.

Early medieval surgical knowledge Carla 2010

So a barber-surgeon may be dealing with an inherently simpler problem than a physician, because it's much easier to identify what's gone wrong - you can see the injury.

Early medieval surgical knowledge Carla 2010

The shop, located on Tacuba Street, belonged to the barber-surgeon Alonso Salas, who was arrested by the Inquisition for insulting an official of that body (injurias a la Autoridad).

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

The novice could acquire all sorts of medical expertise empirically by working alongside the barber-surgeon, the partera, and the curandero.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

So although there may be a grain of truth in the idea that the low-status barber-surgeon might have been a better bet than the high-status physician, that's perhaps more a reflection of the different problems they were trying to solve and the tools they had available, rather than a comment on the practitioners themselves.

Early medieval surgical knowledge Carla 2010

Because the surgeon's closest occupational links were with the barbers, it became common for the two trades to be carried on by a single practitioner, the barber-surgeon.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Cromford Mill, as it was named, was the work of two men: Richard Arkwright, a former barber-surgeon and wig-maker, and Jedediah Strutt, a Nottingham manufacturer of stockings and inventor of an ingenious 'frame' for the machine-knitting of ribbed stockings.

'The Industrial Revolutionaries' 2009

The son of a 63-year-old barber-surgeon and his much younger wife the daughter of a pastor, Handel was found to have musical talent at an early age.

Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

Then he sent for the trooper and his wife and the barber-surgeon and asked the soldier what had moved him to do thus.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then I slept and awoke not till past night-fall, when I washed my face, with a mind full of the high worth of this barber-surgeon and his passing courtesy; after which I wakened him and, taking out a purse I had by me containing a number of gold pieces, threw it to him, saying,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006