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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

which spread themselves over the whole Body and are cold by Nature therefore by the Counsell of the best Physitians these parts are to be covered with the Haire They therefore who would have us believe that the Haire should descend no lower then the Eares and which transcend those limits should contumeliously despight Nature The decency of Hair stated as having so much intrinsique malice in it as cannot stand with innocencie had need prove that Adam had scissers and cut his Haire in Paradise They are yet more severe who would have it against the Law of Nature to weare Haire below the skul for there is some difference between Nature and the law of Nature The Law of Nature is that which by reason of Rationall Nature is common to all Men among themselves which is written in the Hearts of all Men according to which they accuse or excuse themselves They are not of the Law of Nature which many Nations never had nor have notice of it must be known to all Men Some think this Law is written in all Mens Hearts explicitely as to some things implicitely as to others and we shall not charge all Nations of Malice or wilfull transgression against the law of Nature who nourish Haire besides the intention of Nature since there are many conclusions which are of the law of Nature which are not known to all Men. To conclude Haire long or short thick or thin more or lesse is a matter of indifferency wherein there is a variety incident according to the diversity of complexions ages seasons of the Yeare Climates or places of habitation diseases or health the prolixity or brevity whereof wee cannot positively determine Upon pretence of their hot Climate the Turks call such as weare long Haire on their Heads slovens and account them Salvage Beasts for they themselves weare no Haire at all upon their Heads We in colder climates are bound by a principle of Naturall practise and conveniency to reduce our Tonsure to a just moderation and decency wherein some regard must be had to custome which is the rule of decorum for he doth that which is ridiculous Black Haire affected and lesse honest and convenient who offends against Custome which is the Rule of Decency who being singular is Poled and closely cut among those who weare a bush or bushie among those who are Poled The Maldives esteem black Haire a great Beauty and make it come so by Art by continuall shaving keeping their Heads shaven untill eight or nine years they shave them from 8 dayes to 8 dayes which makes the Haire very black The Turks have a black powder made of a Minerall called Alcohole with which tincture they use to colour the Haire of their Heads and Beards black Lord Bacon Nat. Hist cen 8. vici And divers with us that are grown gray and yet would appeare young finde meanes to make their Haires black by combing it as they say with a leaden combe or the like Verily the Art Cosmetique refuseth to accommodate any in this businesse it being not to be attempted by Art since Naturall whitenesse of aged Haires is rather an Ornament then a shame unto the Head and therefore since graynesse as it cannot be amended so it ought not to be palliated with any Fucus and he that assaies to doe it is justly derided of whom Martial Mentiris juvenem tinctis Lentine capillis Martial l. 5. Epigr. Idem lib. 1. Epigr. 99. Tam subito corvus qui modo cygnus eras Non omnes fallis scit te Proserpina canum Personam capiti detrahet illa tuo Cana est barba tibi nigra est coma tingere barbam Non potes haec causa est sed potes Ole comam Artificiall black Haire Sandys Travels lib. 1. The Turkish Women also practise this Art of blacking their Haire as a foyle that maketh the white seem whiter and more becomming their other perfections Peter Mart. Decad 3. The Ciguanians if Nature deny it them make their Haire black by Art Plinie Nat. Hist lib. 3. The Water of the River Busentus would serve these People for a curious Cosmetique which is reported to have a propertie to die the Haire black The like would another River as that in Booetia which makes the fleeces black of those Sheep that are dipt in it Linschoten lib. 1. cap. 26. In Japan contrarie to the opinion of most Nations who think it a goodly sight to see Men with white and yellow Haire esteeme it the filthiest thing in the World and they seek by all meanes they can to make the Haire black for that the white causeth their griefe Trigaut lib. Iapon and the black maketh them glad And therefore they mourn in white In Germanie the Noble Virgins that they may seeme to have somewhat exotique and peregrine Haire or that they may differ from the Plebean Maides to whom the yellow or Golden colour is gratefull affect to have their Haire black Sic suum cuique pulchrum be it their own by traduction or artificiall purchase These Virgins seeme to themselves to doe as that Aethiope who lived in the Court of a certaine Germane Prince who often when he saw in the nursery a faire Virgin and withall a little black whelp he said unto the Virgin you are not faire but this Dog is faire and beautifull Gaudet sic concolor atro as Julius Scaliger saith And I have known some Women among us Yellow Haire affected who rejecting their own Haire for its Naturall rednesse have worn black curled locks which although it falsified their complexions and therein was a trespasse against Nature yet they seem to agree with their cleer skins as the Naturall doe with the black Women that are cleere skin'd This tincture of Haire is but a foolish and ridiculous affectation and many times proves a sinfull vanity Galen therefore a Famous Mr. in Cosmetiques would never communicate to any loose and wanton Woman any medicament to make their Haire black because he knew they would abuse it Hier. Merc. lib. de decoratione but to Matrons who lived honestly he willingly afforded this accommodation The Women of old time did most love yellow Haire and it is found that they introduced this colour by Safron and by long sitting daily in the Sun who instead of Safron sometimes used medicated Sulphur This Art of changing their Haire with Safron was called Crocuphantea Tertullian observing this artifice tels them that they are ashamed of their country and would be Gaulise Women or Germanie Women so much did they disguise themselves whereby is known how much red Haires were esteemed in the old time which to seeke out by Art St. Cyprian and St. Jerome with Tertullian doe say that the same doe prasage the fire of Hel. Galen affirmes that in his time most Women were dead with the Head-ache Galen lib. 1 de vestimentis localibus cap. 19 neither could there be any remedie applied to

taken away by the promoting and reviving of this Noble part of Cosmetiques for the better establishing and preservation of the honesty of the Humane Fabrique and the regular beauty of the Body It is a wonderfull thing that is reported of the Honour and esteem that the perfection of the Body hath been in among the Catheans who ever chose the handsomest man to be their King Onescritus cited by Strabo Geographia lib. 15. Onesicritus reports that their boies two months after their birth are publikely examined whether they have a legitimate forme and worthy of life or no and according as judgment is passed upon them by him who is Chiefe Censor in this businesse they are either permitted to live or appointed to die My Lord of Montaigne in one of his Essayes And my Lord of Montaigne thought much to be bound to own Monsters although they were of his own begetting But those things savour too much of the other extreme and are neither to be approved or put in practise by us Wee rather recommend unto you that observation of my Lord Bacon to be well weighed as he would have it which as he saith may teach a meanes to make the persons of Men and Women in many kinds more comely and better featured then otherwise they would be by the forming and shaping them in their Infancy wherein you may see the opinion of that learned Worthy touching helps toward the beauty and good features of persons And withall I would have all possible meanes used to prevent all unnaturall and monstrous Incroachments upon the Humane forme and where there happens any to reduce it to the Naturall State that so the bodies of men might as neere as can be appeare unblemished and accompanied with all the requisites of beauty it enjoyed in its originall perfection MAN TRANSFORM'D OR THE ARTIFICIALL CHANGLING THE FIRST SCENE Certaine Fashions of the Head affected and contrived by the Pragmaticall invention and Artificiall endeavours of many Nations HIppocrates observes Hippocrates lib. de Aere Aquis Locis that the Naturall mould or figure of the Head hath bin tampered with and altered by Art Sennertus de morbis Figurae Sennertus also where he writes De morbis Figurae reckons amongst other causes of the ill Conformation of Mens Heads that they are now and then induced after the Birth Sugar-Loafe-like Heads whilest the tender Heads of Infants are by Midwives and Nurses formed after a divers manner while they are involved in Head-bands and moulded with their hands according to their irregular and varying Phansies The Cilician Atticke Athenaneus and Argive Women were noted of old as the Phoxi were to have high turbinated Heads The Women in Peru Strabo Geograph lib. although they are gracious by their faire Faces Maginus 2 Geograph America yet for the most part the tops of their Heads are absurdly acuminated and run into an acute Cuspis Strabo makes mention of some Indians who he cals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Capita cunei formia habentes that is having such Piked and Wedg-like Heads This Figure of the Head is in Fashion and Request at this day with some Nations being indeavoured with as much Art as it was of old by the Macrones of Pontus For the Genuensians for the most part have high and copp-crown'd Heads Pine-Apple forme after the condition of a sharp upright Pillar in such manner that the neather part is bigg and round but the upper part sharp Claramont de conject cujusque mor. l. 6. And indeed it is concluded that the Midwives with their Head-bands and other devises are the cause of their Sugar-loafe-like Heads This affected forme of the Head being common and Nationall unto them is reputed so Fashionable that it is held a Note of Gentility and a Gallant Spirit among them Hippoci 6 Ep. 1. Hippocrates notes that an acute Head is alwaies naught and verily this compulsive force of Art is many times very Injurious to Nature and her operations but not alwaies for the Genuensians who delight much in this Figure of the Head and are noted for the most part to have acuminated Heads have at least such an acumen of Wit as makes them excellent for an Active Life and in the opinion of Claramontius the form of the thing gives a suffrage unto it for such a kind of turbinated Figure represents a certaine parvity and therefore the Heat of the Heart is lesse broken by it whereupon Man is rendered more Active Hofman Instit And therefore in this place we must admit what Hofman gives us to know That so long as the Actions of the Braine are not hurt it is only a Naturall or Artificiall fault or imperfection no disease but when they are hurt then it is a disease as it was in Thersites who was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer Iliad and withall a Foole and so sick of this Fashion For the truth is as to the signes Diagnostick a vitious Figure of the Head is known by sight which although it doe chiefly declare the Conformation of the skull yet it is likely and agreeable that the Braine which is concluded in the skull should Participate of the same Figure but the discovery of it is made also by certaine effects and it is easie to know the innate folly bred in some Men Scaliger Comm. ad lib. 5. Theophrast de causis Plant. pag. 287. by the vitious Figure of the Head Yet Scaliger gives another Character of these Genuensians which Imports that they pay for their Affectation The Genuensians saith he having received from the Mauritanians their Progenitors this Custome to compresse the Temples of their Infants as soon as they are Borne now without that Compression are Borne with a Thersiticall Head and Heart We read in the Chronicles of the Prodigious Ostents that Nature hath many times mocked Art in producing this Figure of the Head For Lycosthenes chr de prodig ostent Licosthenes writes that in Ploa a Towne of Voitland there was a Monstrous Infant Borne with such an acuminated Head like a Cap that the Kings of Persia and the Priests in the old Law used or like a Tiara or Turkish Tuffe and in Saxonie in the Month of February 1545 there was another Infant borne with a Long Head notably marked as it were with a Turkish Cap. The Samaritans also as I am Informed by a Learned and Observing Traveller have such Sugar-Loafe-like Heads There being a Colledge of Samaritan Secular Priests in Rome founded by Pope Gregory the thirteenth who have all such Heads and this Figure of the Head it seems is so Gentilitiall to a Samaritan that they are apt there to suspect those Collegiates not to be true Samaritans whose Heads are not so exactly moulded to this Figure Nor is this as a private and particular Observation bounded with in the Wals of this Colledge For I have had great discourse with some Merchants that have been

put off the very Nature of woman since another use of the Paps according to Hippocrates was to receive excrementitious moisture For if saith Hippocrates any disease or other event take away a womans Paps her voice becomes shriller she proves a great spitter and it much troubled with the paine in her head Men that pierce their Paps Before this Scene goes off I ought to take notice of a prophane Cavill of Momus against the Fabrique of the Breast of man who found fault that Nature had not made a Window in the Breast of man that one might have seen the motions of his heart and discovered the affections of his mind And amongst other things which King Don Alonso would who was Surnamed the Wise indiscreetly reforme in Nature this was one among the rest that he did blame her that she had not made a Window in mans Breast that he might see that which he was plotting in his heart and whether his manner of proceeding were faire and sincere or whether his words were feigned No need of a window in the Breast or whether like Janus he had two faces under one hood Alas the desired Window in the Breast would have been of little or no use since it stands not with the conveniency of most Nations to go with an open and bare Breast and say that the Breasts were generally exposed to the Eye Are not the Eyes two Casements that looke down into the Heart And hath not the Countenance a sufficient declaration of the Affection The Eyes being two severall Indexes of the same Nature in recompence and analogically to answer the curiosity of these mens Phantsies hath established a certaine Art of Physiognomy whereby a man may attaine unto a sufficient intelligence of the thoughts and affections of others SCENE XX. What mischief by swathing of Infants Dangerous Fashions and desperate Affectations about the Breast and Waste THe Pergamits as it appeares by Galens observation had a great affectation of old instreight swathing of their Children The walls saith he of the Breasts are for the most part depraved by Nurses while they from the first education do over-strictly bind them about with swathing bands espeicially saith he is this daily done among us to Virgins for while their Nurses are carefull to encrease their Hips and sides that they may exceed the Breast in magnitude they roll them all over with certaine bands and more vehemently restraine and compresse all the parts of the Scapula and Thorax whence it comes to passe sometimes that when all the parts are not equally compressed the Breast is made to bunch out forward or else the hinder parts that belong to the Back-bone are made Gibbous Swathing a cause of crookednesse so that they become crook-backt Another inconvenience also follows that the Back becomes as it were quite broken and brought to one side insomuch indeed as one of the Scapula's is not increased but appeares small and compressed We have the judgement of Frabicius Hildanus and Sennertus both learned men touching this matter In certaine Regions saith Hildanus and Families Hild. lib. de morb puer it is a custome by involving their little Infants as soone as they are born for what cause they know not to pen them up in too streightswathing Bands Whence it often happens that their bodies and limbs protuberate with crooked bunches and other deformities of the Knees Legs and other parts but also by reason of the more strict involution it happens which no man need to doubt of that their bones being yet tender soft 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 This Cautions in ordering Infants 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 rewake 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