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| The Barber Surgeon was a Medical Practitioners who provided a variety of Medical service for the community. Their duties were from picking lice from a clients head, Shaving beards, cutting hair to more complicated medical tasks such as pulling teeth, performing minor surgical procedures to bloodletting. |
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| Bloodletting- the withdrawal of small quantities of blood from a patient to cure or prevent a disease. |
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| During the middle ages, barbers, not only practiced shaving,haircutting and hairstyling but also entered the world of medicine and were involved in the developement of surgery as a branch of the medical practice. |
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the origional symbol of the barber-surgeon was a striped pole which a basin was suspended.
The fillet around the pole represented that was wrapped arounf the arm. The basin at the bottom was the vessel used for receiving the blood.
1. RED - represented the BLOOD
2. WHITE - represented the BANDAGE
3. BlUE - represented the VEINS |
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| The original barber’s pole has a brass ball at its top, representing the vessel in which leeches were kept and/or the basin which received the patient’s blood. The pole itself represents the rod which the patient held tightly during the bloodletting procedure to show the barber where the veins were located. The red and white stripes represents the bloodied and clean bandages used during the procedure. Afterwards, these bandages were washed and hung to dry on the rod outside the shop. The wind would twist the bandages together, forming the familiar spiral pattern we see on the barber poles of today. |
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The Barber Surgeon formed their first organization in France in 1096 A.D.
Soon after, the first school of surgury was established in Paris.
1. Barbers could not perform surgury except dentisty
2. Surgeons were forbidden to act as barbers.
3. Bloodletting became obsolete.
4. Barber Surgeons medical practices dwindled but were relied upon for dispensing medical herbs and pulling teeth.
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| In 1745 a law was passed seperating the barbers from the surgeons and the alliance was completly dissolved. |
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By the 19th Century, barbering was completely seperated from religion and medicine, and began to emerge as an independent profession.
1. Employer organizations were known as Master Barbers
2. Employee organizations were know as the Jouneymen Barber Group
This was the first step toward upgrading and regulating the profession. |
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| The Jouneymen Barbers Union was formed at its first convention in Buffalo, New York, in 1827 and was affiliated with the Aerican Federation of Labor. |
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| 1893 - A.B. Moler, established Americas first barber school in Chicago, Illinois and published the first barbering textbook. The Moler Manual of Barbering in the same year. |
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| 1887 - Minnesot was the first state to pass a barbering licensing law to set standards of sanitation, and require minimum education and technical requirements for the barbers in the state. |
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1924- The Associated Master Barbers of America was organized in Chicago, Illinois.
1941 - The name was changed to the Assiciated Master Barbrs and Beauticians of America. |
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| By 1925 - The Associated Master Barbers of America established the National Edducational Council, the purpose was to standardize and upgrade barber training. |
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By 1929 - The National Association of the State Board of Barbers Examiners was organized in St. Paul Minnosota.
Since 1929 all the states with the exception of several counties in Alabama, have passed laws regulating the practice of Barbering and hairstyling.
State boards are concerned with high educational standards, enforcement of state laws and public health and welfare, and the practice of sanitation procedures. |
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