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Description: | The barber surgeons would have used this steel spatula for pressing their patient's tongue down or to one side. With its long handle it may also have been used as a stirring rod - not very hygienic! It is part of a collection of instruments thought to have been made around 1702 for Newcastle's Company of Barber Surgeons. The Company goes back to 1442. Its members could borrow the instruments when they were asked to perform an operation. In addition to cutting and shaving hair, the barber surgeons pulled teeth, amputated limbs, cut out bullets, sewed up wounds and all without painkillers. Many people died after the surgery. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East health | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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