_The Epidemic Diseases._--VI.--4. The wife of Agasis had already as a young girl been troubled with shortness of breath. After she had reached womanhood, and soon after she had given birth to a child, she lifted a heavy weight. Immediately she heard, as she believed, a noise in her chest, and on the following day she experienced some difficulty in breathing and a certain amount of pain in her right hip. These two symptoms were so related to each other that, whenever the pain in the hip made its appearance, she immediately became conscious that she was short of breath, and, vice versa, whenever the pain ceased, she found that her breathing became easier. Her expectoration was of a foamy character and of a rather bright color, but, after it had been allowed to stand for a short time, it looked like diluted biliary matter that had been vomited. The pain in the hip troubled her chiefly when she performed manual work. She was advised to abstain from eating garlic, pork, mutton, and beef, and not to call loudly or to get excited while she was engaged in work. VII.--7. The wife of Polycrates became feverish during the summer season, and about the time of the dog star. In the morning her breathing was somewhat embarrassed, but after mid-day it became more difficult and at the same time more rapid. From the very beginning of the illness she had a cough and expectorated purulent masses. In the throat and along the course of the trachea one could hear a hoarse whistling sound. The patient’s face had a healthy color, and over the two halves of the jaw there was some redness, not of a deep hue but rather fresh and bright. A little later her voice also became hoarse, she began to show some emaciation, raw spots developed over the fleshy parts of her hips, and the surface of the body grew more moist than it had been before. On the seventieth day the outward evidences of fever became much less noticeable, but the respiration grew more rapid; and from that day to the time of her death, five or six days later, she was obliged to remain in a sitting posture. Toward the end the tracheal râle grew louder, and dangerous sweats occurred, but the patient never lost her expression of intelligence.