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Damages awards and limitation periods
1Centre for Legal Studies, Hatfield Polytechnic.
British Journal of Hospital Medicine
|April 1, 1990
Abstract:
'If the doctor shall treat a gentleman and shall open an abscess with a bronze knife and shall preserve the eye of the patient, he shall receive 10 shekels of silver, if the doctor shall open an abscess with a bronze knife and shall kill the patient or destroy the eye, his hands shall be cut off.' (Hammurabi's law, approximately 2000 BC).