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Found out barbers used to do surgery... from a dusty book in my grandpa's attic
I was looking through some old stuff and found a book from 1903 called 'The Barber-Surgeon's Manual'... it had diagrams for haircuts right next to instructions for pulling teeth. My grandpa said his own dad told him stories about that. Did any of you ever hear about this from older barbers in your shops?
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lisa_hill231d ago
So the barber pole's red stripe is for blood, right? What other tools or symbols from the old shops are actually leftover medical things? Like, were the first straight razors just for shaving or did they have a surgical use too?
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