In the more recent books, we see the arrival of new illnesses and new symptoms. During Augustine’s time, it seemed like everyone who was sick had the fever and eventually died. In book four of Gregory’s text, we still see people suffering and dying from the fever, but now the plague has emerged. We also see King Theudebald suffer a stroke and eventually die and Bishop Cautinus suffer “epileptic fits.” This shows a progression in medicine and may be technology as a whole. Now we have a wider range of symptoms than we did previously, leaving one to wonder how they were able to make these diagnoses. What changes in technology allowed for the discovery of these illnesses? But we must also question whether or not these illnesses were present in Augustine’s time. Could it be that everyone who had a fever would be diagnosed with a fever today?