A surgeon on trial in front of Hammurabi accused of having caused the loss of the eye of a member of the upper class by an unskilful operation, if found guilty his hands would be amputated. Hammurabi, c. 1810 - 1750 BC. Sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty.
A surgeon on trial in front of Hammurabi accused of having caused the loss of the eye of a member of the upper class by an unskilful operation, if found guilty his hands would be amputated. Hammurabi, c. 1810 - 1750 BC. Sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
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