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by badminton1 3391 days ago
In the middle ages, the main practitioners of medicine were "barber surgeons", barbers that were also surgeons and dentists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon

Also, all this was done in a very unsanitary way. In fact medicine was unsanitary in the West until Florence Nightingale conducted an statistical survey showing that cleaner spaces had fewer mortality rates.