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Dentist the Menace (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's also where the concept of a "barbershop quartet" came from. Dentists would have the aforementioned quartet singing loudly outside of their shop to drown out the screaming of patients inside.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

One might ask, "why the barber"? Well, they had the sharpest blades in town which made them the defacto surgeon, and before anesthesia, amputations involved at least as much screaming as pulling teeth.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In those days, asking your barber to "take a little off the top" ended in either circumcision or lobotomy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Either way, hopefully they got a sweet coin as a souvenir.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

lol right, I totally forgot to explain that barbers often did surgery and dentistry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At least? I would have thought it was the other wag around, sawing off a leg off hurts at least as much as pulling a tooth?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I suppose it depends on how drunk your barber/dentist/surgeon/bartender got you beforehand... and how drunk they got themselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Drunk? Pass the laudanum