hydaspis

Updated: May 9, 2025

Possibly no portion of the whole science was so backward as this. Thirty-five centuries ago Darius, son of Hydaspis, suffered a simple luxation of the foot; it was not diagnosed in this land of Apis and of the deified discoverer of medicine.

George M. (George Milbrey) Gould - Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine