Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1907 — Barbers Ages Ago. [ARTICLE]

Barbers Ages Ago.

The first barbers of whom there is any record plied their trade in Greece in the fifth century B. C. In Rome the first barbers operated in the third century B. C. In olden times in England the barber and the physician were identical. Thus, a king’s barber was also his chief medical adviser. In the time of Henry VIII. of England, laws were made concerning barbers, of which the following is an extract; “No person occupying a shaving or barbery in London shall use any surgery, letting of blood or other matter, except the drawing of teeth.”