§ [214]. If that maidservant has died, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.

§ [215]. If a doctor has treated a gentleman for a severe wound with a bronze lancet and has cured the man, or has opened an abscess

of the eye for a gentleman with the bronze lancet and has cured the eye of the gentleman, he shall take ten shekels of silver.

§ [216]. If he (the patient) be the son of a poor man, he shall take five shekels of silver.

§ [217]. If he be a gentleman’s servant, the master of the servant shall give two shekels of silver to the doctor.

§ [218]. If the doctor has treated a gentleman for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has caused the gentleman to die, or has opened an abscess of the eye for a gentleman with the bronze lancet and has caused the loss of the gentleman’s eye, one shall cut off his hands.

§ [219]. If a doctor has treated the severe wound of a slave of a poor man with a bronze lancet and has caused his death, he shall render slave for slave.

§ [220]. If he has opened his abscess with a bronze lancet and has made him lose his eye, he shall pay money, half his price.

§ [221]. If a doctor has cured the shattered limb of a gentleman, or has cured the diseased bowel, the patient shall give five shekels of silver to the doctor.

§ [222]. If it is the son of a poor man, he shall give three shekels of silver.