Question

In Ancient Mesopotamia, people in this job would carry around willow wood and a stool and included the high-ranking Gimil-Ninkarrak. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this job. Romans would start wearing a toga virilis following the first visit to a man in this job, who might use a novacila ("no-WAH-kee-lah").
ANSWER: barbers [accept hair cutter or hair stylist or barber surgeon; prompt on surgeon]
[10m] The brother of this Roman emperor, Geta, unusually had a barber give him a daily shave. This son of Septimius Severus would later have the Praetorian Guard murder Geta.
ANSWER: Caracalla [or Marcus Aurelius Antoninus or Lucius Septimius Bassianus]
[10e] In the Middle Ages, barbers often doubled as surgeons, in which capacity they might apply these creatures to a patient to help balance their humors via bloodletting.
ANSWER: leeches [or medicinal leeches; or Hirudinea; or Hirudo medicinalis]
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