Note 708 — Chapter XIX · FISH IN MYTHS, SYMBOLS, DIET, AND MEDICINE
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Empedocles, albeit no doctor, is said to have delivered Selinus in Sicily from malaria by drainage, etc., and so roughly anticipated the triumphs of Ross and Gorgas over the mosquito by some 2400 years. See Diog. Laert. VIII. 70, s.v. “Empedocles.”