1. The twelfth is the mediciner of the household. 2. He is to have his land free: his horse in attendance: and his linen clothing from the queen, and his woollen clothing from the king. 3. His seat in the hall within the palace is at the base of the pillar to which the screen is attached, near which the king sits. 4. His lodging is with the chief of the household. 5. His protection is, from the time the king shall command him to visit a wounded or sick person, whether the person be in the palace or out of it, until he quit him, to convey away an offender. 6. He is to administer medicine gratuitously to all within the palace, and to the chief of the household; and he is to have nothing from them except their bloody clothes, unless it be for one of the three dangerous wounds, as mentioned before; these are a stroke on the head unto the brain; a stroke in the body unto the bowels; and the breaking of one of the four limbs; for every one of these three dangerous wounds the mediciner is to have nine score pence and his food, or one pound without his food, and also the bloody clothes. 7. The mediciner is to have, when he shall apply a tent, twenty-four pence. 8. For an application of red ointment, twelve pence. 9. For an application of herbs to a swelling, four legal pence. 10. For letting blood, fourpence. 11. His food daily is worth one penny half-penny. 12. His light every night is worth one legal penny. 13. The worth of a medical man is one penny. 14. The mediciner is to take an indemnification from the kindred of the wounded person, in case he die from the remedy he may use, and if he do not take it, let him answer for the deed. 15. He is to accompany the armies. 16. He is never to leave the palace, but with the king’s permission. 17. His saraad is six kine, and six score of silver, to be augmented. 18. His worth is six score and six kine, to be augmented.” Elsewhere we meet with the following particulars:— “Of the three conspicuous scars this is: “There are three conspicuous scars: one upon the face; another upon the foot; and another upon the hand; thirty pence upon the foot; three-score pence upon the hand; six-score pence on the face. Every unexposed scar, fourpence. The cranium, fourpence.”[672] “For every broken bone, twenty pence; unless there be a dispute as to its diminutiveness; and if there be a dispute as to the size, let the mediciner take a brass basin, and let him place his elbow upon the ground, and his hand over the basin, and if its sound be heard, let four legal pence be paid; and if it be not heard, nothing is due.”[673] This singular test is explained in another passage, thus:— “Four curt pennies are to be paid to a person for every bone taken from the upper part of the cranium, which shall sound on falling into a copper basin.”[674]