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A30109	A view of the people of the vvhole vvorld, or, A short survey of their policies, dispositions, naturall deportments, complexions, ancient and moderne customes, manners, habits & fashions a worke every where adorned with philosophicall, morall, and historicall observations on the occasions of their mutations & changes throughout all ages : for the readers greater delight figures are annexed to most of the relations / scripsit J.B. ...; Anthropometamorphosis	J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing B5470; ESTC R3856	290,691	513

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 impotent Sex of women and children whereof they being extremely in love withall have stolne away and ravisht For they are earnestly prone unto venery which is common to them with the Satyrs of other ancient writers Yea sometimes so saucy and leacherous that the Indian women do therfore shun those Launes and Forrests worse than a Dog or Serpent wherein these lascivious Creatures do lurke and inhabit All which things are for a very truth related of this Satyr Which makes me remember the conceit of a certaine Historian who describing the deformed aspects of a Nation If you beheld saith he their ugly visages you would thinke that they had no other Sires than the Apes and Baboons of the neighbouring Woods Vnlesse the frequent beholding of these unlucky things should by impregnating the imagination of teeming women produce such a similitude as it happened to a Noble man whom Salmuthus speakes of Salmuthus observ med cent 2. who kept an Ape which for sport-sake went round about the Table his wife being great with child playing very often with it afterwards at her delivery she brought forth an Infant from the girdle upwards an Ape to wit as far as he could be seen dancing above the Table but below a man a miserable spectacle and the more miserable that this horrid monster was to be suckled This Relation of Tulpius shews this Creature to have been a kind of Ginney Drill for it answers very directly the Effigies of that Ginney Drill which this Michaelmas Terme Ginney Drils of what Tribe 1652. I saw neare Charing Crosse the haire of whose head which was black grew very like the haire of a child it was a compleat Female too not above eleven months old and yet it seemed to me to answer the Dimensions which Tulpius gives of his Angola Satyr The Keeper of it affirmes it will grow up to the stature of five foot which is the ordinary size of little men He would go upright and drinke after the same manner Her Keeper intended never to cut her haire but to let it grow in full length like a womans in case she should dye her carkasse was bespoke for Dissection by some Anatomists who perchance have a Curiosity to search out what capacity of Organs this Rational Bruit had for the reception of a reasonable soule or at least of such a delitescent reason which Drill is since dead and I beleeve dissected but of the Dissectors and their observations I have not received any intelligence Of which monster I may say what Jordanus saies of the aforesaid Orang Outang or Tulpius his wild man that it proceeded from the wicked copulation of man and beast the Devill Cooperating and Divine revenge without all doubt ensuing thereupon of the same Tribe and Originall were those two children which the Portugall woman bore to the Great Ape Castanneda in Annal. Lusitaniae when she was exposed into a desert Island inhabited only by such Apes a story well known in Portugall and is worth the reading in Delrio And indeed they very much resemble them in the Face especially in the Nose which is very flat and Camoyse with repanded Nostrils an Ape being called Simia Which kind of Ape is most like man not from imitation as some unskilfull Grammarians suppose but a simitate from this simity of a saddle-like Nose and it is the opinion of Scaliger that these kind of Apes who have no Tailes approach neerer to the similitude of man than those that have Tailes although they be almost men both in manners and understanding which he confesseth he had often wondred at In Ginney

to fight with such instruments as were not given him by Nature for that purpose He glorieth to be Lion-like Nailes commonly serve men and beasts to cover the extremity of Veines Sinews and Arteries that the naturall animall and vitall spirits might not evaporate that way they also serve many beasts in particular for offensive and defensive armes If Nature doth not purge the humours by convenient waies it is either too weake or too much oppressed if a man vents his wrath with unbeseeming weapons either his rage swelling too high makes him mad or his weaknesse casts him down The shape of the mouth the scituation of it the weakenesse of Teeth are all evident signs that Nature did not place them there for his defence And who will imagine the nailes to be mans armes seeing that when he will fight he hides them and whereas other Creatures strike with an open paw he only fights with a closed fist But since they weare them for a beauty it may be they have some such like conceit as Aristophanes puts upon the Philosophers who kept their nailes unpared not for miserablenesse Monstrosities of Armes that they would not part with the paring of their nailes lest with the parings of their nailes they should lose and communicate some portion of Wisdome diffused throughout their Limbs So these conceited women seeme too loath to part with this dangerous piece of affected beauty lest perchance they should lose so firme and precious a particle of their delicate substance or want too opportune a weapon fitted by Art to wreake their impotent revenge upon any provocation of their Cat-like valour Many Monstrosities and depraved conformations have appeared in the Armes and Hands and many have been borne without Armes Neare Esselinga Nechari there was a Monster borne Lycost lib. prodig Anno 1528 to wit an Infant with one Head foure Eares foure Arms and as many Feet Idem lib. eodem Anno Domini 1389 there was an Infant borne having foure Armes and as many Legs who lived untill he was baptized Pataeus oper suor l. 24. c. 2. Jovianus Pontanus reports that Anno Domini 1529. the seventh day of January there was seen in Germany a Male Infant with foure Armes and as many Legs Idem eodem lib. cap. 4. On the same day that the Venetians and Genuensians entred into a League there was borne in Italy a Monster with foure Armes and foure Feet endowed but with one Head which being baptized lived sometimes after Jacobus Rueffius the Helvetian Chirurgion declares that he saw the like but who had over and above the Genitals both of the Male and Female Jul. obsequens Tit. Graccus and M. Juventius Consuls there were boys born with foure Hands and foure Feet P. Crassus and Q. Scaevola being Consuls Monstrous Nations with many armes there was a Boy borne with three hands Idem and as many feet M. Marcellus P. Sulpitius Consuls Idem there was a Boy borne with foure hands and as many Feet At Venafrum there was a Boy borne with three hands and as many Feet Jac. Rueff l. 5. de Concept ex Rom. Hist Some other Histories of fourefold Armes we passe by But these are hardly to be accounted Monsters who have such a Multiplication of Armes because there are many Nations who appeare with such a Brachiall Redundancy for Lycost in sua Historia the Portugals sailing in the mid way to Calecut where the Dog-star cannot be seene they found in a certaine Island men provided with two Armes and as many Hands on the right side with Asses Eares and a Mans Face who run like Harts And we find it recorded in the Acts of Alexander the Great Idem King of Macedon that in India there were men endowed with six Armes and as many Hands who all their life time incur no sicknesse which was believed to be another species of men C. Valerius M. Herennius Consuls Jul. obsequens a maid brought forth a Boy with one hand Salmuthus speakes of a Boy who altogether wanted his Left hand Salm. obser Cent. 1. obs 15. in place whereof he obtained the fore-foot of a Cat a miserable Spectacle P. Africanus and Laelius Consuls Idem at Amiternum there was a Boy borne with one hand and three feet In Tartaria there is found a Nation that have but one Arme and one Leg and Foot of whom you may heare more in the three and twentieth Scene Many also have appeared without Armes Men without Armes And even now while this Impression of mans Transformation was working off there was publiquely to be seene a young man borne at Hagbourne within foure miles of Abbington whose name is Iohn Simons born without Armes Hands Thighs or Knees who had no joint in his Knees but one continued bone from his Hip unto his Foot not in height above three quarters of an Ell from head to foot and yet from the wast upward as proportionable a body as any ordinary man wanting his Armes and from the waste downward not a full quarter of a yard in the Twist He is about twenty yeares of Age he writeth with his mouth he threads a Needle with his mouth he tyeth a knot upon thread or haire though it be never so small with his mouth he feedeth himselfe with spoon-meat he Shuffels Cuts and Dealeth a pack of Cards with his mouth An observing Divine a Traveller and friend of mine told me upon occasion of Discourse of this armelesse man that he saw in Cheapside London but few daies before a child that was borne without Armes and had two little hands which it could move standing out of its shoulders a poore woman had the child in her armes begging with it Idem Lycost l. prod ostent p. 141 ex Rom. Histor Com. ad lib. 3. Tech. Galeni Text. 177. T. Gracchus M. Iuventius Consuls at Privenum there was a Girle born without a hand In Picenum there was an Infant borne without hands and feet Haly Rodoham saith he had seen a man who was then alive who had neither hands nor feet Anno 1591 Feet used for Hands Incert Author February 8th there was a Female born at Strausburge who wanted all her fingers both of her hands and feet and lived to the ninth of Iuly following It is not omitted by Dion Dion how that among other presents sent from the Indians to Augustus there was a little youth without Armes who yet with his feet performed the exploits of hands for he could bend a Bow shoot an Arrow and moreover sound a Trumpet We have seen saith Alexander Benedictus Alex. Benedict a woman borne without Armes Sim. Majolus using her Feet for hands in spinning and sewing Simon Majolus reports to have seen such Creatures often in Italy The Learned may find a world of such Histories in Skenckius and Aldrovandus And the recompence of this errour as they call it of

and cartilaginious are easily wrested and drawn out of their naturall scituation which afterwards by degrees harden into an excrescence which he had observed in many Hereupon becomming crook-backt and lame the naturall proportion of the body is depraved and the body made incommensurate for whereas a measure taken from the Crown of mans head to the sole of his foot should answer to the distance between the middle finger of his right hand to the middle finger of his left hand when the Armes are stretched out to the full length this proportion cannot be observed in crook-backt men and hence they are justly accounted unproportioned The providence that is to be used in the swathing of Infants is a thing of high concernment and therefore there cannot be too much said thereof Take therefore what Mercatus hath of this matter Cautions in ordering Infants This saith he ought alwaies to be the care of Nurses Mercat de Infant Educat l. 1. that when they swathe their Children they endeavour to touch and handle every part of their body gently and carefully to divide that lightly which is to be divided and to extend that which is to be extended and depresse that which is to be depressed and to fashion every part according to the innate and more comly proportion of each part yet they must do it with a tender compression and with the very ends of their fingers too But swath-bands being provided for that purpose for the right ordering of the structure of the body if there be need they must gently and softly revoake and rectifie the members but if they be formed according to Nature they ought in no wise inconsiderately to touch them because oftentimes they fall into worse condition through the carelesnesse of those that handle them and for that cause they must not only be very carefull to swathe their Children but also in laying of them down when they are swathed lest some part should chance to remain awry or ill figured They must also gently squeese the bladder that they may the more easily make water Moreover the hands and armes are to be extended to the knees They must lightly bring the feet on both sides backward to the back and before to the head that they may learne to bend every part which ought to be bent yet they ought not to remaine setled upon the belly lest they prejudice the Entralls neither againe ought they to hold them with their face downwards untill they are swathed all over For it is better first to compose the swathbands that being laid they may receive the Infant upon his back yet they must observe this caution lest in swathing them a leg or an arme the backe or the neck be by any meanes distorted Our Custome of swathing children condemned they ought to cleane the Nose and to wipe the eyes with a gentle linnen cloath and thus after they have suckt sufficiently to lull them asleep by very gentle motions of the Cradle for by violent rockings the Epilepsie ariseth And it is better from the third month that they should be carried and in the Nurses armes lull'd asleep also you must take heed that you bind them not too strictly for that oftentimes is the cause of gibbosity and crookednesse neither therefore ought they to be too loose because their members are wont to lose the naturall figure and acquire that which in the relaxed space can be acquired Moreover we ought not to permit them forthwith nor in the Summer time to have their armes at liberty before the space of three months and in the Winter not before foure yet the right hand must for some few daies be first taken out that thereby they may become right-handed indeed their hands are weakned and their fingers for the most part are depraved with crookednesse Also after nine months you may suffer them to put on shooes about which time they will be able to trample on the ground and to hold themselves upright and that they may do twice or thrice in a day and afterwards compell them by little and little and by degrees to go by steps so that by that labour you do not very much enforce them but gently untill they attaining more strength desire it of themselves and may without harme endure it We in England are noted to have a most perverse custome of swathing Children and streightning their Breasts Which narrownesse of Breast occasioned by hard and strict swadling them is the cause of many inconveniences and dangerous consequences For all the bones of new-borne Infants The naturall proportion of the Breasts especially the Ribs of the Breast are very tender and flexible that you may draw them to what figure you please which when they are too strictly swathed with Bands reduce the Breast to so narrow a scantling as is apt to endanger not only the health but the life of Children For hence it is that the greatest part of us are so subject to a Consumption and distillations which shorten our daies and bring us to an untimely Grave For they who have more streight and narrow Breasts are necessarily made opportune to spitting of bloud distillations and the inflamations of the parts of the Breast since the Lungs in such grow very hot for when the rest of the body retaines its proportion and due magnitude and the Breast is made narrower more bloud is collected about the Breast than it can digest or expell from it selfe whence neasting in those cavities especially of the Arterious veines or veine-Arterie degenerates into the causes of many diseases Moreover the Breast it selfe corrected is very much weakned whereupon the bloud flowing thither hotter or sticking there becoming sharpe doth easily erode the vessels neither is Nature now able to defend her selfe any longer The Breast hath an Ovall figure in its naturall magnitude it doth make eight Geometricall inches to wit that which begins at the throat-bone and is terminated in the sword-like cartilage the Back from the first Vertebra of the Breast to the end of the twelfth or reaching to the beginning of the first of the Loines obtaines a Geometricall foot and one inch So that the Breast is shorter than the Back by five Inches the sides run out from the Clavicula to the end of the Breast where the Bastard-Ribs end and have nine inches and a halfe the Perepheria of the Breast is two Geometricall foot and two Inches Swathing a cause of the Rickets If you render your breadth it is narrowed an Inch If you take it in it is dilated two Inches this is the naturall proportion Now when either by Nature or this foolish violence of Art the Breast by compressing is made narrower and unproportioned the Scapulae usually appeare prominent and they become such as Hipocrates calls Alatos and by that figure obnoxious to a Phtysique the back-bone not only being hurt and they made gibbous but the Lungs thereupon cannot preserve their figure the best prescription

cut their haire and the men weare it long 56 That the Haire was given women for a covering 57 That Haire hanging down by the Cheeks of women of it 's owne Nature is not contrary to the Law of Nature or unlawfull 58 For a woman to be shorne is against the intention of Nature ibid. For men to nourish long haire is quite contrary to the intention of Nature 58 59 60 That such long haire would hinder the actions of common life 60 Tonsure necessary 59 The regulation of the haire of man according to the rules of decorum ibid. 60 What long Haire it is that is repugnant to Nature against her law and above and besides the naturall use 60 The decency of haire stated 62 63 Nations extreamely affecting black Haire 63 64 By what art they make it come so ibid. The practise of blacking gray Haires ridiculous 63 Nations which of old did and at this day doe affect yellow Haire 65 68 By what meanes they introduced this colour ibid. How they were and are punished for this their lasciviousnesse 65 66 67 Tincture of Haire both in men and women a shamefull thing and dishonourable to Nature 66 67 68 69 How the indulgence and licence granted unto women in matters of ornamentall dresses of Haire is to be moderated 69 Painting of Haire an ancient custome with the Indians 68 Inconveniences supposed to happen to women by the affected beauty of the Haire 69 Nations that anoint their Haire 70 The like vanity observed in our gallants ibid. The effeminate powdering of Haire exploded 70 71 Frizling and curling and plating the Hair with hot Irons an old vanity 71 72 Periwigs an ancient vanity 72 73 Hands LIttle Hands where in fashion and accounted a great beauty in women 287 What art they use to have them so ibid. What women are noted to have the least Hands of any women in the World ibid. Nations that paint their Hands red 288 Where they make their Hands of a golden tincture ibid. Hands painted with a tawney colour ibid. Hands painted with flowers and Birds ibid. Monsters borne with 4 Hands 301 Monsters born with three Hands ibid. Nations with two Hands on the right side ibid. Nations with six Hands ibid. Monsters borne with one Hand ibid. Nations that have but one Hand 301 302 Monsters borne without Hands 302 303 The strange recompence such Monsters finde 303 Nations that want Hands 306 A strange story of one born with 2 stones in one Hand and one in the other L Leg. NAtions that have but one Leg. 422 Long-Legg'd Nations 423 433 Certaine People where the women affect to have their thighs hips and Legs very thick 425 What art they use to accommodate their fancies in this busines ib. The folly of this custome derided ibid. Other people where the men and women affect great Calves and full Legs 425 426 The absurd Cavill of Momus against the frame of the Leg of man exploded 426 427 A Calfe-swelling punishment inflicted upon some Nations 427 A Crane Legg'd man 428 Little Legs in women what signe 427 Where the women are well proportioned in their Legs ibid. A way to bring Legs to a convenient magnitude 429 Low-pitch'd Calves where in request 430 What industry they use to have it so ibid. High pitcht Calfes where in request 429 430 What meanes they use to advance the Calfe ibid. The impertinency in tampering with Childrens weak Legs 431 432 Their opinion confuted by experience who thinke Children would have distorted Legs unlesse they were diligently involved and constringed in swaithbands 336 That this indiscreet swaithing of Children is many times a cause of the crookednesse of the Legs 334 The crookednesse of the Knee and Leg bones in the Rickets how sometimes occasioned 328 229 A Tailors and Bakers Legs how caused 432 Nations that make lists or markes on their Legs which are esteemed with them a great gallantry 433 Where the womens Legs are crooked ibid. Where the women almost all of them halt ibid. Short-legg'd Nations ibid. Centaures and Onocentaures 437 Men with the Legs of other animals 433 434 435 436 Monsters with the Head and privities of men but with the hand and feet of Apes 437 438 Their originall 437 Satyrs and their originall 439 Gynny Drils of what Tribe 440 Monsters with foure Legs 300 Which kinde of Ape is most like man 441 When Apes began to grow like men 443 Sea-men or men fishes 444 The opinion of the learned concerning semi-men and semi-Beasts Lips VVHere they brand their Lips with red hot Irons especially their upper Lips so make streaks and lines in them 176 Nations that bore holes in their Lips to set precious stones rings and other things therein 176 177 178 179 180 181 The use of the Lips set out 181 182 What uses are hindered or frustrated to the prejudice of Nature by the boring and lading the Lips with Jewels and other things 182 Nations that seem not to understand the naturall uses of Lips 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 Nations that have flat mouths without lips 170 Nations that have copp'd fastigiated Lips ibid. Where there are men who have Lips of a monstrous bignesse 174 Imputed to a prevarication of art ibid. Where they love those that have thick lips ibid That great Lips redound to the prejudice of Nature in her operations 174 175 Where they have Lips propendent a cubit low which they nourish instead of a beard 171 172 That they are hereby dumb ibid. Nations that have their lips about their mouth so great that when they sleep in the sun they cover all their faces with their Lips 173 Some that can bind their Heads with their Lips as well as women do with their haire ibid. Prodigiously prominent and thick lips ibid. 174 Nations that have concrete lips with a hole only in the middle 170 Haire-lips their cause and cure 175 M Mouth VVIde mouths where affected by women they being accounted most beautifull who have the widest mouths 167 168 A conjecture of their using Art to have them so ibid. The naturall proportion of the mouth 169 For women to affect the commendation of beauty in a wide mouth much derogates from the honesty of Nature and her ordinary justice 169 What they may probably suffer by a mouth so wide 170 A little Mouth most commendable in women 169 Why the mouth was given to man 168 Misplaced mouths 175 Men with monstrous mouths 170 Nations that have but one hole in their face ibid. Dwarfes that have no mouths ibid. N Nailes LOng Nailes where extreamely affected as a signe of idle Gentility 289 290 291 292 The hindrance that this affected fashion causeth to the operations of the tops of fingers 291 295 Where it is one of the points of bravery with the principall women to weare long nailes 293 This noted as a great Solicisme in Nature 298 Where to weare long nailes on the Thumbe is a prerogative royall 293 Where they never pare their