On the other hand I can imagine Xenophon purring over this side of Orientalism quite naturally.
C2.12.This slipshod style, how accounted for?
The most puzzling thing of all is the sort of mental confusion between Cyrus and the king in general.
C2.15-16.

Thoroughly Xenophontine and Ruskinian and eternal.
C2.24.Here is the germ of benefit societies and clubs and insurances and hospitals.

Xenophon probably learns it all from Ctesias, and others of the sort.

Cyrus provides doctors and instruments and medicines and diet, in fact, all the requisites of a hospital, in his palace.

Nor does he forget to be grateful to the doctors who cured the sick.