If a doctor has treated the severe wound of a slave of a poor man with a bronze lances and has caused his death, he shall render slave for slave.
220.

If he has opened his abscess with a bronze lances 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.
224.

If a cow doctor or a sheep doctor has treated a cow or a sheep for a severe wound and cured it, the owner of the cow or sheep shall give one-sixth of a shekel of silver to the doctor as his fee.( 22) (22) The Oldest Code of Laws in the World; translated by C.
H.W.Johns, Edinburgh, 1903.
HEBREW MEDICINE THE medicine of the Old Testament betrays both Egyptian and Babylonian influences; the social hygiene is a reflex of regulations the origin of which may be traced in the Pyramid Texts and in the papyri.

The regulations in the Pentateuch codes revert in part to primitive times, in part represent advanced views of hygiene.