Note 471 — ON THE PROGNOSTICS.

This is imitated pretty closely from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 260. Dr. Ermerins remarks that there is a greater number of symptoms in the Prænotiones than in the Prognostics. He therefore suggests the question whether there may not be a lacuna in the text. The description of the respiration preceding dissolution in the Prænotiones is certainly most graphic, and it appears wonderful that it should be omitted by Hippocrates in the Prognostics.