242 THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES^ ESQ., LL.D., M.E.A.S., ON 



" If a man has made the tooth of a man who is his peer to 

 fall out, they shall make his tooth fall out." 



Summa smni muskmi ittocdi, siismn mana kaspi isaqal. 



" If he lias made the tooth of a poor man to fall out, he 

 shall pay ^ of a mana of silver." 



Here follow the laws concerning the breaking of the head of 

 a superior, an equal, and a poorer man, the respective penalties 

 being 60 blows with a whip, a mana of silver, and 10 shekels 

 of silver. If the culprit was a slave, his ear was cut off. 



Unintentional injuries inflicted in a quarrel entailed respon- 

 sibility for the doctor's bill, or, if the person died of those 

 injuries, the payment of half a mana of silver in the case of a 

 free man and one-third in the case of a poor man, as com- 

 pensation. 



For the death of another man's daughter, the daughter of 

 the aggressor was killed, unless the father of the slain woman 

 was of inferior rank, in which a money penalty was provided. 



It is after this part that the very interesting enactments 

 concerning physicians, their pay when successful, and the 

 penalties to which they were liable in case of non-success, are 

 inserted : — 



Snmma azn awelam zimmam kahtam ina GIR-NI si]jarri 

 ipus-ma awelam nhtallit u ho nagahti aiuelini ina GIR-Nl 

 siparri ipte-m.a in aivelim ubtallit, esrit siqli kaspi iliki. 



" If a physician has treated a man for a severe wound with 

 a bronze lancet, and has cured the man, or has opened the 

 cataract of the man's eye with a bronze lancet, and has cured 

 the eye of the man, he shall receive ten shekels of silver." 



" If he be a poor man, he shall receive 5 shekels." 



" If he be a man's slave, the master of the slave shall give 

 two shekels of silver to the physician." 



Summa azu atvelam zimmam kahtam ina GIR-NI siparri 

 ipits-ma aivelam. ustamit u lu nagahti aivelim ina. GlE-Nl 

 siparri ipte-ma in awelim ithtahhit, ritte-su inakizn. 



" If a physician has treated a man for a severe wound with 

 a bronze lancet, and has caused the man to die, or has opened 

 the cataract of a man with a bronze lancet, and has destroyed 

 the eye of the man, they shall cut off his hands." 



" If a physician has treated the slave of a poor man for a 

 gra.ve wound with a bronze lancet, and caused him to die, a 

 slave like the slave he shall return to him." 



"If he has opened his cataract with a bronze lancet, and 

 has destroyed his eye, he shall pay half his value in silver." 



