History

In 16th century Italy doctors and "barber-surgeons"(!) were mandated to report treatments of wounds caused by violence; a 1560/70s register of such reports from the city of Rome shows that each year 1.8% of the population went to visit a doctor after suffering from violence. pic.twitter.com/peVCCUis0Q

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