Did Hippocrates know spina bifida?

The historical medical reviews concerning the clinical detection, aetiopathogenesis, and symptoms of spina bifida rather hastily cite a passage of the Hippocratic treatise On Glands that seems to describe this condition in detail [ [1] ]. The work, that some consider pseudo-Hippocratic, dates back to the Hellenistic age; others place it between the end of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth century BCE. It proposes a description of the main glands of the body from an anatomical, physiological, and pathological point of view. The author gives the glands the function of absorbing an excess of fluids thus regulating the balance of humors.