Hammurabi and the Mesopotamia

1. Hammurabi
By: AMEER AZEEZ
29/03/2016

4. Hammurabi
•was the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty,
reigning from 1792 BC to 1750 BC
•he extended Babylon's control
throughout Mesopotamia through
military campaigns
Was born 1810 BC

5. Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia was divided states disputed power, alone component
empire included all of Iraq, near the cities of the Levant and even the
coast of the Mediterranean Sea and the country of Elam, and other
areas.

6. Hammurabi's laws
•Hammurabi's laws is the first laws which recorded in the history .
•These laws divided into 282 legal article dealing with all the problems of
life and define the duties of individuals and their rights in the society in
which they live .
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7. Hammurabi and medicine
Babylonian King Hammurabi, he had a legally shows the relationship
between doctor and patient, and in the picture one of the doctors who
made a mistake in the right patient at a hearing in front of Hammurabi,
The Code of Hammurabi is the first code of ethics in the medical
profession .

8. •If a doctor has treated a man, and has caused the man to die, or has opened a man’s
tumor with a metal knife and destroyed the man’s eye, his hands shall be cut off.
•If some one pullet a house and he didn’t do it well and the house fell and died
homeowner of the house because he wasn’t Nicely for his work . the Man Who built
the house should be executed and if owner of the house has child and he daid child of
the person who pullet the house shill die also
•If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. If one
break a man's bone, they shall break his bone. If one destroy the eye of a
freeman or break the bone of a freeman he shall pay one mana of silver. If
one destroy the eye of a man's slave or break a bone of a man's slave he
shall pay one-half his price."

9. according the records, there were two types of healers in Mesopotamia
An ashipu was like a sorcerer or a witch doctor. He saw patients and
determined the causes of their ailments. Back in those days, people
believed that evil spirits made people sick. To recover, they had to
please the gods they had upset earlier. And that was when
an ashipu came into play. When a man fell ill, an ashipu would pay him a
visit. He would tell the man which god was angry with him. He would
tell the man what he had to do to make amends. For example, the man
might need to say a certain prayer or chant to drive out the evil spirit.
He might need to sacrifice an animal. Or he might need to perform
some magic rituals.

10. Sometimes, when necessary, an ashipu would refer his
patient to see the second kind of healer called asus
•An asu was a specialist in herbal remedies. He wrote prescriptions
to cure diseases. Occasionally, he would perform surgeries, too.
Shocking as it may be, people in Mesopotamia
were already advanced enough to
perform eye surgery.

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