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rewards and penalties
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The rewards and penalties for a medical man in Babylon nearly 4000 years ago are listed in the code of laws established by King Hammurabi:
'If a physician shall perform on anyone an operation with a bronze operating knife and cure him, or if he shall open a growth on an eye and save the eye, he shall have ten shekhels of silver; if it is a slave, his owner shall pay two shekhels of silver to the physician.
If a physician shall make a severe wound with the bronze operating knife and kill the patient, or open a growth and destroy his eye, his hands shall be cut off.
If a physician shall make a severe wound with the bronze operating knife on the slave of a free man and kill him, he shall replace the slave with another slave.'
Quoted Ira Rutkow Surgery 1993, page 7
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