Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in science-related occupations]
7. [people in health and medicine]

Anotations

Scope note:

Members of a profession that emerged during the Middle Ages when the practice of surgery was not taught in universities. Barbers were called in by physicians in cases where razors or blood letting was deemed necessary. The organization of the United Company of Barber Surgeons of London in 1540 began the evolution toward qualifications for those who performed operations. This guild was the precursor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.