502 NOTE B. 



&quot; of this enquiry still remains strangely neglected, to the great dis- 

 &quot; advantage of natural philosophy, which seems almost a dead thing 

 &quot; without it.&quot; But Professor Stewart, in his Essay, prefixed to the 

 Supplement to the Scotch Encyclopedia, and Coleridge in his Aids 

 to Reflection, page 92, consider this theory to be obsolete. 



NOTE B. 



Referring to page 125. 



In his history of Life and Death, he says, &quot; Concerning the times 

 &quot; of nativity, as they refer to long life, nothing hath been observed 

 &quot; worthy the setting down ; save only astrological observations, 

 &quot; which we rejected in our topics. A birth at the eighth month, is 

 &quot; not only not long-lived, but not likely to live. Also winter births 

 &quot; are accounted the longer lived.&quot; 



And in some other part of his works, he says, a seven months 

 child proves the strength of the infant, an eight months, the weakness 

 of the mother. 



