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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

out no further Nature hath determined the place whence the Nerves arise ought they not therefore to spread over the Body but be cut off there where they arise It is no good argument from the bound of a things rising to the bound of its progresse And the Haire was not only intended to cover and warm the skul for it may cover the Temples and the Neck because there are most thin Bones This is the principle of the Nerves 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. Morc 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

in time reduce us to our first Barbarisme and so consequently expose us to all the deformities and practicall affectations which can proceed from a depraved imagination For the better prevention of which evils in the behalfe of Nature whose vindication I have here undertaken and for the Honour of Physitians who professe themselves the friends of Nature and to be her faithfull servants I could wish that this reproach that lies upon them might be 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 TRANSFORMD 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 Athenaeneus 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 th●●r ●aire Faces Maginus 2 Geograph Americae yet for the most part the tops of their Heads are absurdly acuminated and run into an acute Cuspi● 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 Hippoc. 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