| | | | | <That reminds me of the PHDs' in my family .
BIL PHD sloane, Phd Harvard Business insist on being called doctor.
Niece Harvard business PHD introduces herself as doctor.
Silly world>
Till the 19th century, barbers and surgeons were part of the same organization. Surgeons were not respected in the academia.
Look at the Barber's pole outside barber shops...it carries a lot of history.
en.wikipedia.org
Origin in barbering and surgery[ edit]
Antique red and blue striped pole in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States
During medieval times, barbers performed surgery on customers, as well as tooth extractions. The original pole had a brass wash basin at the top (representing the vessel in which leeches were kept) and bottom (representing the basin that received the blood). The pole itself represents the staff that the patient gripped during the procedure to encourage blood flow. [3]
At the Council of Tours in 1163, the clergy was banned from the practice of surgery. [4] From then, physicians were clearly separated from the surgeons and barbers. Later, the role of the barbers was defined by the College de Saint-Côme et Saint-Damien, established by Jean Pitard in Paris circa 1210, [5] as academic surgeons of the long robe and barber surgeons of the short robe.
In Renaissance-era Amsterdam, the surgeons used the colored stripes to indicate that they were prepared to bleed their patients (red), set bones or pull teeth (white), or give a shave if nothing more urgent was needed (blue). [6]
After the formation of the United Barber Surgeon's Company in England, a statute required the barber to use a red and white pole and the surgeon to use a red pole. In France, surgeons used a red pole with a basin attached to identify their offices. Blue often appears on poles in the United States, possibly as a homage to its national colors. Another, more fanciful interpretation of these barber pole colors is that red represents arterial blood, blue is symbolic of venous blood, and white depicts the bandage. [7]
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