Biomedical Engineering Reference
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217
If he be the slave of some one, his owner shall give the physician two shekels.
218
If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with
the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off.
219
If a physician make a large incision in the slave of a freed man, and kill him, he shall replace the
slave with another slave.
220
If he had opened a tumor with the operating knife, and put out his eye, he shall pay half his value.
221
If a physician heal the broken bone or diseased soft part of a man, the patient shall pay the
physician five shekels in money.
222
If he were a freed man he shall pay three shekels.
223
If he were a slave his owner shall pay the physician two shekels.
224
If a veterinary surgeon perform a serious operation on an ass or an ox, and cure it, the owner shall
pay the surgeon one-sixth of a shekel as a fee.
225
If he perform a serious operation on an ass or ox, and kill it, he shall pay the owner one-fourth of
its value.
226
If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold,
the hands of this barber shall be cut off.
227
If any one deceive a barber, and have him mark a slave not for sale with the sign of a slave,
he shall be put to death, and buried in his house. The barber shall swear: “I did not mark him
wittingly,” and shall be guiltless.
