Operations were performed by surgeons who had no knowledge
of germs. So they never sterilized their tools. Operations mainly ended in
death. Patients might have recovered from small operations. Surgeons were
unskilled, unprofessional men who were either butchers or barbers. Today, we
sometimes see the red and white pole outside of barber shops. That pole indicated
that an operation was happening. The red stood for blood, while the white stood
for bandages. Operations on dead bodies were forbidden. Medical charts told
surgeons what not to do when they were born under a certain sign.
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