Least Favorite Job From The Middle Ages

      The job that I would like to have the least would probably be the barber surgeon. I can not stand the sight of blood of the sound of tearing skin as it is, so it is so horrible that people have to do that. In those times, they probably has no sedatives or advanced medications, so the people were probably screaming in pain. Can you imagine after the surgery? People were probably in so much pain and their wounds were most likely going to be infected. Some of the tools that people had to use were old- looking and unsanitary. I would not like to be the one to blame for a death or serious illness because of the surgery that I preformed. I also can not stand the sight of a needle. I don’t think that the needles back then were small and advanced like they are today so it would be so gross to inject a large needle into a screaming kid or adult. Another thing that is gross about anywhere that medical surgeries are preformed is the smell. The smell of blood and metal. Back then there was not air conditioning and the smell could sit around for days or weeks at a time… EW! The surgeons probably at some point used leeches to take blood or puncture the skin, and the way that leeches were collated was another thing that no one would want to do. They were collected using women with bare legs who when out into the river and had them stuck to her. This had to be very unsanitary. For example, one leech could have been used for multiple people. This brings me to wonder what would happen if some infected blood from another person was put into a different leech user. All together, both of these jobs seemed unsanitary and very unappealing, and hopefully I will never have to preform them in my lifetime.