[cardinal4]

Another oddity of that era were Barber-Surgeons. Doctors or Physicians were deemed to "good" to perform "surgery" so the Barber-Surgeons did it. Since barbers already had razors and cutting implements it kind of fell on them. They even had their own guild.

Susanna Gregory's "Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew", a Cambridge professor of medicine in the 1360s, provides great research into medical techniques of that era. Great mysteries, too..

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

As I recall, the training for a “Medical Doctor” during the mid 19th century (1800s) took less than a year.