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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

Art come to such agility as the Nairo's have Turpis Romano Belgicus ore color But the Venetian Dames have the harder taske to please For all bodies may be made leane but it is impossible to fatten where a vehement heat or driness is by nature for one may easily substract from Nature but to adde to Nature is difficult when vertue doth not cooperate among the rest they who have great Livers are very difficultly improved with flesh All other Creatures if they have sufficient and proper food will grow fat and be franked whereas men although they have the best aliment exhibited to them will not in like manner be fat the chiefe cause whereof as to man is imputed to his temperament but there are three causes found which impedes the fatting of man Corpulency where in great esteeme The first is the great variety and dissimilitude of meat to which appertaines that many men observe not a certaine time of repast whence there ariseth unequall concoctions the other cause is immoderate venery or venerious cogitations but the third and chiefest cause is to be attributed to the sollicitous cares of his mind which dry his very bones The Gordians Bruson Facet Exempl l. 7. when they appoint one to be their Chiefe they chuse one of the most corpulent amongst them for corpulency with them contrary to the opinion of Epaminondas the Theban is held a corporall vertue whereas he could not endure a corpulent Souldier saying that three or foure shields would not suffice to cover his belly who had not a long time seene the witnesses of his own Virility The Goths would not elect any man to be their King except he were tall grosse and very corpulent On the contrary the Sarazens would have no King to command over them except he were little leane and low of stature Opinions although opposite yet well considered neither side may be void of reason The Author of the Treasury of Times vol. 1. lib. 3. cap. 17. Jo. Bohem. de morib gent. li. 3. Reasons pro and con you may find in the Treasury of Times which are too long here to insert The ancient Gaules through their assiduous labour and exercise were all leane and spare bodied and their bellies very little set out for they did so abhor a paunch that young men whose bellies exceeded the measure of their Girdles were publikely punished Marcus Aurelius was wont to say that hogs and horses fatnesse did well become them Monstrous fat men but that it was more commendable in men to be leane and slender for that your grosse men are commonly grosse witted besides they have a filthy wallowing gate they are unfit to fight either for themselves or their friends they are a kind of unweildy lump an unprofitable masse of flesh and bone being not able to use any manly exercise whereas we see it is quite otherwise in those that are leane and not laden with fat Among the Lacedemonians fat folkes were not only in disgrace but they did punish them by most severe Laws made against them For Lycurgus appointed a small Diet to the Lacedemonians on purpose that their bodies by that streight diet might grow up more in height for the vitall spirits not being occupied to concoct and digest much meat nor yet kept down nor spread abroad by the quantity or over-burden thereof do enlarge themselves into length and shoot up for their lightsomenesse and for this cause they thought the body did grow in height and length having nothing to let or hinder the rising of the same It seemeth saith Plutarch that the selfe same cause made them fairer also For Over fed bodies encounter Nature Plut. in the Life of Lycurgus the bodies that are leane and slender do better and more easily yield to Nature which bringeth a better proportion and a forme to every member and contrariwise it seemeth these grosse corpulent and over-fed bodies do encounter Nature and be not so nimble and pliant to her by reason of their heavy substance As we see it by experience the children which women bring before their time and be somewhat cast before they should have been borne be smaller and fairer also and more pure commonly than other that go their time because the matter whereof the body is formed being more supple and pliant is the easier weilded by Nature which giveth them their shape and forme the naturall cause of which effect he gives place to them dispute it who will without farther deciding the same And indeed as Levinus Lemnius observes it is confirmed by daily experience that children who do much Gormandize grow up lesse comely neither shoot up to a just and decent longitude for the Native heat is suffocated and over-whelmed with too much moisture that it cannot shape the body to a comely taleness of stature wheras they who are fed moderately and use a sparer diet feed only at certain set times become not very grosse neither increase in flesh or grow fat but their bones thereupon increase in length So we see young men children in long continued sicknesses to grow lean and slender yet their bodies to shoot out in length and to increase in stature which Lemnius should thinke happens by reason of drinesse for the bones since they are dry Men growing Giants by a disease they are nourished with an aliment familiar agreeable unto them seeing that in sick men the humours and aliment received through heat and the drinesse of the body become dry the bones are extended in length and by reason of the somewhat dry nourishment they gaine some advantage in stature especially when man is in such an age wherein his body as soft and ductile Potters clay may be formed and produced in length Remarkable examples of this truth are to be found for they have been seen whom a Quartan-Ague hath raised into a Giant-like bulk and stature Spigelius hath a story of one Anthony of Antwerp who lived in his time who being borne a little and weake Infant of a sudden through a disease became a great Giant Such with the Greeks are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in whom there lies hid the Seminary of a disease which cals forth a prodigious augmentation with an untimely death Salamine the son of Euthemen in three yeares grew up to the height of three cubits as Pliny reports In like manner a son of Cornelius Tacitus the Noble Historian died young Every man hath a certaine and determinate time set to his growth wherein by degrees and tacite augmentations he attaineth either to a legitimate or Dwarfish stature and that power of encreasing whereby the body happens to be enlarged in longitude is seldome produced beyond the five and twentieth yeare but for the greatest part is terminated within one and twenty yeares but to grow fat and corpulent happens not to be done in certaine spaces of time but by reason of nutriment when it is plentifully taken in which may