urious to be omitted. They are
clauses 215 to 227 of the celebrated code, and are as follows:

215. If a doctor has treated a man for a severe wound with a lancet of
bronze and has cured the man, or has opened a tumor with a bronze lancet
and has cured the man's eye, he shall receive ten shekels of silver.

216. If it was a freedman, he shall receive five shekels of silver.

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

218. If a physician has treated a free-born man for a severe wound with
a lancet of bronze and has caused the man to die, or has opened a tumor
of the man with a lancet of bronze and has destroyed his eye, his hands
one shall cut off.

219. If the doctor has treated the slave of a freedman for a severe
wound with a bronze lancet and has caused him to die, he 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 wittingly," and he
shall be guiltless.

ESTIMATES OF BABYLONIAN SCIENCE

Before turning from the Oriental world it is perhaps worth while to
attempt to estimate somewhat specifically the world-influence of the
name, Babylonian science. Perhaps we cannot better gain an idea as to
the estimate put upon that science by the classical world than through
a somewhat extended quotation from a classical author. Diodorus Siculus,
who, as