He used to work as a barber.
Barbers in those days of old were called barber-surgeons, for the reason that they bled people, as well as shaved them or cut their hair.
If the wearing of the beard ever became universal, the world, and especially the Spanish and Italian world, would sadly miss the barber and the barber's shop.
Moreover, beardless, he would need the service of a barber every day.
Less than 2.5 per cent of all inventories were for professional people (attorneys, apothecaries, barbers, schoolteachers, surgeons and clerks).
Moreover, the late tracking direction seemed to be dependent upon some vector combination of the potential different motion signals present in the "barber pole" stimulus.
Altogether, these results suggest that stimulating the "remote surrounds" of the grating has a strong influence on the perceived direction of the barber pole.
Other occupational groups who were apparently more likely to sue than to be sued were yeomen, scribes and notaries, and apothecaries and barbers.
