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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5823165" data-attributes="member: 50895">Your statements on diet is true. However, in old Japan, the physicians weren't noble caste members, they were Commoners. Surgeons on the other hand were Hinin caste members (Eta, the bottom caste). While the nobles were certainly the first getting care by these physicians, it wasn't exclusive. Consider in old Japan, touching 'bloody things' was considered disgraceful. A homemaker could prepare meat for food, without this consideration, however butchers are members of the Hinin caste, because no one of higher caste considered handling dead animals as anything, but tainted. This also means that surgeons skilled in giving medical aid through cutting of the flesh was members of the bottom caste. So the best medical aid an skills available in feudal Japan were of the lower castes. Medical care was available to them, as they are the 'first responders'. My family on my mothers side in Japan were highly respected physicians that served the Daimyo in Shimaneken district in western Japan for almost 1,000 years - so I know this to be true.</blockquote>