shall give back slave for slave.

220. If he has opened his tumor with a bronze lancet and has
ruined his eye, he shall pay the half of his price in money.

221. If a doctor has cured the broken limb of a man, or has
healed his sick body, the patient shall pay the doctor five
shekels of silver.

222. If it was a freedman, he shall give three shekels of silver.

223. If it was a man's slave, the owner of the slave shall give
two shekels of silver to the doctor.

224. If the doctor of oxen and asses has treated an ox or an ass
for a grave wound and has cured it, the owner of the ox or the
ass shall give to the doctor as his pay one-sixth of a shekel of
silver.

225. If he has treated an ox or an ass for a severe wound and has
caused its death, he shall pay one-fourth of its price to the
owner of the ox or the ass.

226. If a barber-surgeon, without consent of the owner of a
slave, has branded the slave with an indelible mark, one shall
cut off the hands of that barber.

227. If any one deceive the surgeon-barber and make him brand a
slave with an indelible mark, one shall kill that man and bury
him in his house. The barber shall swear, "I did not mark him