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Show Dostors Fees Regulated. The fees of doctors were prescribed by law In Bsbylon In tho days of Nebuchadrezzar. Neb-uchadrezzar. The code of Hammurapl, tho great lawgiver, provided : "If a doctor doc-tor has operated with a bronzo lancet on n man for a severe wound, nnd has cured him, or has removed a cataract with a bronze lancet for a gentleman and cured tho fcyo of the gentleman, ho shall receive ten shekels of silver, If the patient bo the son of a freed-mnn, freed-mnn, the doctor shall receive five Bhckels." |