Caversivan Barber

**Barbers in Caversiva** are ultimate multitaskers that fare even better than modern surgeons, modern barbers, and even medieval barber surgeons. It's true that a lot of surgery in Caversiva is done by barber surgeons, and they're even equipped with Barbicide, analgesics and anesthetics made from 100% purely natural plants farmed by autochthons every time they do their traditional surgeries.

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Thanks to the autochthons' successful missions to save the cultural and scientific databases of the enslaved races, barber poles (not made out of blood) are safe. Blood from patients are even given to blood banks for donation. Laws are also given to not to allow barber surgeons to wrap bloody cloths around poles, place bowls of human blood into windows, and even throw away blood from rivers (which may find it gruesome).

## Dentistry

Barbers are also doubled dentists in Caversiva sometimes, yet there are separate dentists there. They also have modern dentistry just to make their patients' dental appointments run smoother. They wouldn't use nitric acid (or strong water/*aqua fortis*) since it would destroy enamel and the tooth from the outside in. That's because toothpastes are reinvented by autochthons due to the Drastians' miserable failures on database destruction.

## Dissection

They all have the same respect as university-educated physician monks and nuns. Physicians and surgeons are all debased like in modern times, for bloodletting and tooth-pulling are no longer existent as lessons from medieval times. Dissection must be done with anesthetics with physicians and/or anatomists to assist them.

## Professionalism

Dentists can use healing salves, advanced medicine, advanced medical instruments, and improved barber tools to help their patients recover, and with the help of anesthetics, it improved the health quality of their patients a lot. Caversivan barbers couldn't even pour boiling oil into gunshot wounds since it can be dangerous. Instead, they would wash wounds with clean water twice a day (and not using hydrogen peroxide or alcohol, which can be slow healing), and they would also cover the wounds with petroleum jelly (Vaseline for example) and nonstick bandages, keeping the wounds dry for the first 24 to 48 hours and go for a shower if they said it's okay, then pat the wounds dry, then take prescription/over-the-counter medicine, antibiotics and prop up injured areas on pillows.

Otherwise, they can throw together a salve made with egg yolks, oil of roses and turpentine (called the Paré salve). Also, all barber surgeons are advised to treat wounds gently, and not to cauterize wounds at all. They also have anesthetics/analgesics (lavender essential oils, rosemary essential oils, peppermint essential oils, eucalyptus essential oils, cloves, capsaicin, gingers, feverfews, turmerics, acupunctures, yogas and mindfulness meditations) to ensure that people can fare their surgery sessions better.

University-educated physicians are exclusive for barber surgeons (with jobs such as removing kidney stones), while lowly ones should only stick to traditional hairstyling. Also, they don't allow audience watching during sessions since privacy is a thing. They won't have to be showmen/showwomen at all. Their procedures must go according to plan, otherwise will they face moderate-to-heavy fines.

Thankfully, these dangerous failure instances were very rare since they have good medical training. Bloodletting is no longer practiced due to the dangers they've learned from their medieval ancestors (unless it's to be done for blood donation or blood sampling purposes only with slight pain and less bleeding to be done as possible). They even are well-equipped with cold medicines, thanks to scientific medicine saved from the Drastians' blundered attempts to destroy all the enslaved races' cultural and scientific databases.

## Shampooing/Shaving

Human urine is not allowed to use as shampoo. Because of the autochthons' clever tactics when they were trying to stop the Drastians from destroying the databases, modern shampoos are thankfully saved and are put into the making once more. Shaving soap are made cheaper for the masses, and they even have natural foaming agents used as their substitutes or as for their choice.

## Wax Effigies

Caversivan barbers can double as hairstylists, barbers and surgeons, yet they too can double as chandlers. Chandlers and barbers both use tons of wax. Barbers can use it as a base in ointments while chandlers can make candles out of wax. Barbers now more commonly than ever before practice a strange procedure where they would treat a patient by using wax to make a model of their diseased organs.

They would then present the wax organ at a shrine in an effort to call upon Caversivan magic to ease their patient's suffering (which actually worked unlike in medieval times). Alternatively, they would make a limb-shaped candle and burn it at a shrine for patients with arm or leg issues such as gangrene. Alternatively, you might have prosthetics too.