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A77798	Anthropometamorphosis: = man transform'd: or, the artificiall changling historically presented, in the mad and cruell gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome loveliness of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature; with figures of those transfigurations. To which artificiall and affected deformations are added, all the native and nationall monstrosities that have appeared to disfigure the humane fabrick. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant. Scripsit J.B. cognomento chirosophus. M.D.	J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.; Fathorn, William, 1616-1691, engraver.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682.	1653 (1653)	Wing B5461; Thomason E700_1; ESTC R202040	309,892	550

and for some such ends have committed the same cruell Trespasse against Nature But the maine designe in this businesse originally was to make them more fit to keep their women the name Eunuch imposed upon them being as it were a cloake wherewith they covered the injury done to Nature it signifies as it were Chamberlaine and keeper of their Bed entertained and appointed for the preserving their women Montaig lib. 1. Essay 22. yet in some Countries where Eunuches have religious women in keeping because they shall not be loved they have also their Noses and Lips cut off And as the Genitall parts put a difference between Nation and Nation so between one Religion and another Religious Eunuchs For the Priests of Cybele the great mother of the Gods used to cut off their own members and so geld themselves without danger of death which they do with a sheard of Samian earth Voscius de orig progr Idolat lib. 2. I find in Voscius the reason why those Priests of the Goddesse gelded themselves it was but in respect of the Corne that was reaped but the seminall force is in the harvest for as the prolifique vertue is from the virile parts so seed from the Corne And by their Example a man of a simple wit to be revenged of his wife plaid such a pranke with himselfe of which Lucilius Lucil. Satyr ● Hanc ubi vult male habere ulcisci pro scelere ejus Testam sumit homo Samiam sibique illico telo Praecidit caulem testesque una amputabat ambo Plin. nat Hist lib. 11. Thus Religion also hath made Eunuches as the Priests of the Gaules who castrated themselves Mat. cap. 19. and of Stone-Priests became Galli Castrati French Capons And herein appeared most manifestly the Lapse of Origens judgement who having wrested and taken all other places of Scripture in an allegoricall sense took this Some have made themselves Eunuchs for the Kingdome of God in a litterall sense and to that end castrated himselfe And there were many in his time and since were hardly conceited of him that justly that he in the flower of his Age being then about twenty five yeares old should deprive himselfe of Virga virilis not having in those parts any disease that might require any such extirpation Divers waies of Castration for to deprive himselfe however sanctimonious his intentions were of those parts contrary to the order of Nature was an unlawfull mutilation and meere treason committed against her Two waies there are of this unnaturall dilapidation of the body one is performed by contusion the other by excision the last being more approved of for they who have suffered the contusion of their Testicles may now and then affect to play the man some part as it is likely of the Testicles lying hid within those that had passed this kind of Eunuchisme by contusion were called Thlibiae and Thladiae And because Physitians are now and then by Great ones against their wills compelled to castrate also Paul Aeginet lib. 6. cap. 68. Paulus Aegineta delivers the manner of operation A thing very improper to our Art which is the chiefest servant of Nature for whereas the Physitians Art doth reduce bodies from the state which is against Nature into the naturall the manner of making Eunuches which the Greekes call Eunuchismum promiseth the contrary But the keene jealousie of latter times hath gone a little nearer with Eunuches Rousset de partu Caesar sect 6. cap. 6. Hist 2. Cardan Comment in Hippo. l. de Aere Aqnis locis Lect. 62. Text. 19. Scaliger exercit 104. num 8. ad subtil Cardani and made them taste deeper of the Rasor even to the totall deprivation of the Genitals For although at first among the Turkes their Eunuches were only Castrati gelt yet since perceiving Eunuchos posse etiam non velle solum now they will not trust their Eunuches with any part of their virility no way confiding in simple Eunuches But the Eunuches in the Great Turks Seraglio who are in number about two hundred they are all of them not only gelt The time of making Eunuches but have their Yards also cleane cut off and are chosen of those Runegago youths which are presented from time to time to the Grand Signiour Graves descrip of the Grand Sign Court Few or none of them are gelt against their will For then as the Master Workmen in that businesse affirme they would be in great danger of death wherefore to get their consent they promise them faire and shew unto them the assurance they may have in time to become great men All which must be done when they are very young at their first comming into the Seraglio For it is a worke not to be wrought upon men of yeares which invention although it abate their courage yet they generally prove men of the greatest judgement and fidelity their minds being set on businesse rather than on pleasure This kind of Eunuchisme was of old a fashion in Persia and all parts of the Levant where it is a Custome to geld their Male Children when they are young that being Eunuches they may be capable of places of Trust and preferment in Princes Courts who indeed are often advanced by that meanes none being held so trusty as they especially to looke to their women who therefore thinke they have a good bargaine in exchanging the naturall Conduit of their Urine for a Quill which they weare in their hats in a way of jolly ostentation Marcus Paulus Thenetus and Garcias d' Orta a Portugall Physitian do deliver for a certainty that in Bengala a Kingdome most potent at this day seated on the Islands and mouth of the River Ganges in the East-Indies the Moores inhabiting that place Where they sell their Children to be made Eunuchs do travell into other forreigne Lands and the neighbouring Isles to buy young Children whose Parents being poore and covetous of money do sell their Sons else these villaines will rob and steale them thence and carry them quite away and not only cut off Virga but Parastrates also such as escape death after this cutting they educate them very delicately and afterwards sell them to the Persians and other Mahumatists who buy them at a very deare rate to wit three or foure hundred Ducats a piece to serve as men of their Chambers in a foule and unlawfull acquaintance and also to have the charge of their Wives The Turkes that dwell in Europe and Asia do use the very same Castration on such young boies as they can seize on in the Christian Countries and then make sale of them in manner aforenamed A practice seene and observed by the Lord Villamont in the City of Damas in Syria Ld Villamont Hist l. 3. c. 5. in the yeare 1589. where a beautifull Russian slave of a Bashaw whom his Master intended to geld in full manner before recited and then to present him

they strive to have their Children suck over their shoulders for this is a device contrary to the intention of Nature as plainly appeares by the scituation of the Breasts as we have shewed in our Vox Corporis or Morall Anatomy of the Body Sutable to this absurdity is the Custome of the Turkish women Helyn who carry not their Children in their armes as we do Very little Breasts affected but astride on their shoulders But more conceited is the Fashion of the Matrons of Dasamonque in Florida who have a strange manner of carrying their Children plainly diverse from ours For we as a gesture more conformable to the hint of Nature carry ours in our armes before our Breast they taking hold of the right hand of the Child beare them on their back De Bry Hist Ind. embracing the Child 's left-heele with their left-hand by a way as wonderfull and forreign as it is averse to Nature Purch Pilgr 3. lib. 2. More commendable are the women of Uraba who do mightily affect little Breasts and use all the Art they can devise to have them so Allowable is the use of those Cosmetiques which are contrived by Art to restraine the exuberancy of the over-grown Breasts and reduce them to their naturall proportion which in the corrective part of medicine is performed by refrigerating repercussive medicaments which drive backward the matter to the profundity and excellently advancing the naturall heat compell it to enter into the depth of the Body and so meeting with the Aliment afar off prevents its passage io the more superficiall parts and so consequently prohibits the undecent augmentation of the Breasts Yet the practice of some Indian women to avoid the deformity of sagging Breasts is no way allowed who having Teats that become loose and hanging use therefore abortions with a certaine herb because they will not have this deformity and when they fall the principall women beare them up with Bars of Gold As if the Breasts of women were intended only for ornament Doe you thinke saith Phaverinus Men with great Breasts Phaver in Aul. Gell. that Nature hath given women their swelling paps as so many more beautifull Warts not for the nourishing of Children but for the adorning of the Breast for so many prodigious women endeavour to dry and dam up that most sacred Fountaine of the body and feeder of mankind as if it should despoile them of the ensigns of Beauty of which not the Vulgar but the Learned complaine that the greatest part of women an ancient crime put forth their Children to be Nursed from whence there follows the frequent infirmities of mens Bodies together with a shortning of the age and a diminution in their stature The same or not much differing folly are they guilty of who use strange counterfeit sleights to abortiate the fruit of their Body that the smoothnesse of the Belly be not wrinkled and enfeebled with the weight of the burthen and the labour of Child-birth a thing deserving all hate and detestation that a man in his very originall whiles he is framed whiles he is enlived should be put to death under the very hands and in the Shop of Nature In Aegypt the men have greater Breasts than the biggest of our women for Prosp Alpin lib. de med Egypt c. 9. Prosper Alpinus writes that they grow so fat by their course of Diet that he never saw in any Country so many extreame fat men as he observed in Grand Cairo and he reports that most of them are so fat that they have Breasts far greater and thicker than the longest Dugs of women But if I should say that men in some Countries have not only great Breasts bearing out like unto women which give suck but that many men have given suck unto their own Children Male Nurses it would sound very strange and somewhat against kind Purch Pilgr 2. lib. 9. Alex. Benedict lib. 3. cap. 4. Anatom yet upon credible witnesses it appeares to be very true For one Peter a Christian Casar at Sofula his wife dying after Travell of a Daughter nourished the same with milke from his own Breast for a whole yeare Pitty of the motherlesse crying Infant which his poverty could not otherwise relieve caused him to seek to still it with laying it to his Breast and then gave it somewhat to drinke which having continued two or three dayes his Breast began to yield milke Purch Pilgr 2. lib. 9. A poore Jew of Ormus nourished his son with his Breast the Mother dying when it was young in the Cradle A poore man in Moura being sixty yeares old had as much milke as a woman-Nurse and gave suck to two Children I have not wherewith to accuse these Male Nurses of tampering with their Breasts yet since the businesse concornes the reputation of Nature 't is worth the scanning Anatomists say that men have scarce any Glandules since they according to Hippocrates were not to have any milke in their Breasts yet they deny not that such a kind of humour like unto milke may be ingendred in them which Aristotle cals milke but unfit for nourishment Bauhin Anat. As Bauhinus observed in two men whose Breasts were replenished with a more copious juice Idem Ibid. Alex. Buatus Vesal lib. 5. Hum. Corp. Fabr. lib. 18. sect 7. Tra. 1. Sum. 2. ca. 39. Jac. Font. Art med pars 1 yet a certaine learned man affirmes that there have been seen some who putting an Infant to their Breasts have given suck Vesalius saith that more than once he had seen abundance of milke in men which also Nicolus affirmes Jacobus Fontanus saith Women with manlike Breasts he knew a Butcher of a good habit of body and fat that had Breasts abounding with milke And Bauhinus confesseth Idem Ibid. that they who have viewed the new World report that men there generally almost have store of milke in their Breasts In particular we read of the Cumacaiaro's a Nation of Brasile Renuard Cysatus Ins Japonia Germanice that the men are endued with large Breasts swelling with milk which are sufficient for the suckling and nursing up of Infants their women on the contrary being endowed with small and manlike Breasts Which Femenine property of men although not so frequently Card. 4. de hist Anim. 20. de subtil 12. hath appeared also in this our old world Cardan affirmes that he saw at Venice one Antoney Bussey of thirty yeares of Age who had such abundance of milke in his Breasts as was not only sufficient to suckle a Child but it moreover sprouted out exuberantly Johan Conradus Schenckius the Son knew one Laurence Wolff who from his youth to fifty five yeares of Age being then so old abounded with such store of milke that in their meetings being drunke he would by way of sport compressing his Breasts ejaculate and spurt milk in the face of those that sate right over against him being known to

Lycosthenes Other monstrifique births there have been deformed with the feet of other Animals For in Germany neare the Town of Lawferburg in the Borders of the Helvetians upon the Rhine Anno Dom. 1274. there was a boy borne with the feet of a Goose Pedestrall Monsters Aldrovandus Aldrovandus speakes of an Hermaphroditicall Monster with the Legs and Feet of an Eagle all other parts retaining the Humane forme which perchance because it could not be taken was shot to death with Arrowes In the yeare 1512. a little before Ravenna was sackt there were cruell wars in Italy Aldrovand Hist monst Guzman de Alfrage And in this very City I mean Ravenna there was borne a strange Monster which did strike the beholders into great admiration and caused much wonder He had from the girdle upward all his whole body face and head like unto a man saving that he had one horn in his forehead he wanted his Armes but instead thereof Nature had given him two wings like a Bat he had figured in his Breast the Pythagoricall Y and in his stomack down to his belly a well formed Crosse or Crucifix he was an Hermaphrodite both these two naturall Sexes being in a very proportionable manner well and truly formed he had no more but one thigh and to it one leg with its foot like a Kites and the tallons answerable thereunto in the knotty part or locking joint of the Knee he had one only Eye These monstrosities and unnaturall shapes possessed mens minds with extraordinary admiration and those that were learned men and great Schollers considering with themselves that such monsters in nature were usually prodigious and did foretoken some strange effects did beat their braines and exercise the strength of their wit in the speculation and search of the signification thereof Nations with the feet of a Horse and what this strange monster might portend amongst many other that the horne did signifie pride and ambition the wings inconstancy and lightnesse want of armes want of good workes the foot of that bird of Rapine theft usury and Avarice the eye in the knee affection to vanities and worldly things the two Sexes Sodomy and beastly filthinesse in all which vices Italy did then abound For the which God did scourge them with his whip of wars and dissentions but the crosse and the Y were good and fortunate signes for the Y in the breast did signifie Vertue and the crosse on the belly that if men suppressing their dishonest lusts of the flesh should embrace vertue in their breasts God would give them peace sweeten his displeasure and abate his wrath Aldrov hist Monst fol. 371. Somewhat the like monster Aldrovandus exhibits saving that it had two feet one whereof was like a mans with an eye in the knee and the left leg was scaly and ended in the taile of a fish Isidor l. 11. c. 3. Isidore writes plainly that there is a Nation which appeares with a humane body and the feet of a Horse Mela. l. 3. c. 3. And Mela and Solinus do not seeme to doubt but that there may be men with Horses feet for Mela saith that in the Islands of Oonae in the Northern sea are the Oones who have feet like Horses they are called Hippopodes with whom Solinus doth accord Solin cap. 21. The Hippopodes retaine the Humane forme unto the Legs but end in Horse feet Plin. Nat. hist lib. 4. And Pliny expresly declares that there are such men among the Oones who are borne with horse feet Such kind of Centaures are said to inhabit in certaine Islands distant three daies saile from the Scythian shores called Hippopodes Centaures and Onocentaures although other Writers say they have the Legs of an Asse and called Onosceli from their asinine Legs Hence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a kind of Divels so called a cruribus asininis as Rhodiginus saith In the Regions of Tamberlaine in times past called the Great there were Centaures found of such a forme that their upper part resembled man with two armes like a Toad and the other parts a horse Among Authors also we read of Onocentaures representing the fore-part of a man and the hinder part of an asse for the Septuagint Interpreters upon Isaiah render that the Onocentaures shall inhabit forsaken Babylon although the Vulgar Interpreters interpret Vlulas In some places of the Region of Peru Hist of Peru part 1. there be certaine great Apes inhabiting with whom the Inhabitants by the suggestion of the Devils are mingled whence there ariseth Monsters with the head and privities of men but with the hands and feet of Apes the rest of their bodies all hairy which speake not but with howling after a manner emulate Devils Of some such kind of extraction that Indian Satyr seemes to have been described by Tulpius Ex Tulpii obser that was brought from Angola in his time and bestowed upon Henry Frederick Prince of Orange And this Satyr was foure-footed but of the humane kind as may be seen by his Effigies He was called by the Indians Orang-Outang or a wild man The description of a wild man Resembling a child of three yeares old in length as also one of six yeares in thicknesse He was neither of a grosse nor slender body but well set yet very neat and nimble but he had joints so straight and muscles so large that he both durst and could do any thing He was smooth before on both sides and behind hairy with black haires His visage resembled a man but his Nostrils being flat and crooked upward was like a wrinkled and toothlesse old woman His eares were like other mens and also his breast having on both sides a swelling Pap for it was of the Female Sex he had a very large Navell and his upper and lower joints were so exactly alike with mens that you shall hardly see one egge more like to another His elbow was excellently joyned neither was the order of his fingers nor thumbs different from the humane forme nor the Calfe of his leg nor his heele unlike which neat and comly carriage of his members was the reason that oftentimes he would go upright and also he would with more ease take up any heavy burden than carry it When he would drinke he would take the Cup by the handle with one hand and put his other underneath it then he would wipe his lips as neatly as we see our gallant Courtiers do Which same dexterity he would observe when he went to bed As bowing his head upon the pillow and handsomly covering his body with the bed-cloaths and would hide himselfe just as if some Gentleman had laine there Morever King Sambasensis upon a time told a Kinsman of our Author Samuel Blomart Satyrs and their supposed originall that these Satyrs especially the Males in the Island of Bornaeum are of such courage and strength that they have done violence to armed men much more unto an