Hammurabi — "If a physician operates on a man for a severe wound with a bronze lancet and cau…"

If a physician operates on a man for a severe wound with a bronze lancet and causes the man's death, or opens an abscess in the eye for a man with a bronze lancet and destroys the man's eye, they shall cut off his hands.
Hammurabi — Hammurabi Ancient · Babylonian king, code of laws

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Law 218 of the Code of Hammurabi

Date: c. 1754 BC

War & Violence

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