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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

discourse I have heard to fall somewhat in earnest from the mouth of a Philosopher one in points of common beliefe indeed too scepticall That man was a meer Artificiall creature and was at first but a kind of Ape or Baboon who through his industry by degrees in time had improved his Figure his Reason up to the perfection of man Plin. Lib. 11. Nat. Hist It is indeed an old Observation of Pliny that all the Race and kind of Apes resemble the proportion of men perfectly in the Face Nose Eares and Eye-lids which eye-lids these Creatures alone of all four footed have under their eyes as wel as above Nay they have paps and niples in their breasts as Women Arms and leggs bending contrarie waies even as ours doe nailes they have likewise and fingers like to us with the middle finger longer then the rest as ours be Thumbs and great toes they have moreover with joints like in all the world to a man and all the inward parts are the very same that ours as if they were made just by one pattern Yet they a little differ from us in the Feet for somewhat long they are like as their hands be and the sole of their Foot is answerable to the palm of their hand Their nailes are channelled halfe round like a gutter tile whereas in man they be flat and broad And Galen who was a great dissecter of Apes and therein acknowleged the resemblance to man yet observes that the Thumb of an Ape differs much from that of a man But by this new History of abused Nature it will appeare a sad truth that mans indeavours have runn the clean contrary course and he hath been so farr from raising himselfe above the pitch of his Originall endowments that he is much fallen below himselfe and in many parts of the world is practically degenerated into the similitude of a Beast The danger of man since his fall is more in sinking downe then in climbing up in dejecting then in raising himselfe to a better condition or improvement of naturall parts It is a sad thing as a grave divine saith to consider the pronenesse of man to such a descent Dr. Donne such a dejection and such a diminution of himselfe a descent generally into a lower nature being forbidden by GOD with Nolite fieri Psalme 22. v. 9. Be not made at all not made any other then GOD hath made you GOD made man who was his medall at first when God stamped and imprinted his Image on him God would have this man preserve his dignitie Nolite fieri be not made any new thing wherein he forbids him a descent into any depravations and deteriorations of our Natures be not perversely metamorphosed into a beast goe no lesse be not made lower The first sin that ever was was an ascending a climbing too high and man in the secone place was overthrown by the same affectation but it seems this fall hath broke the neck of mans Ambition and now wee dare not be so like God as we should be Ever since this fall Man is so farr from affecting higher places then his Nature is capable of that he is still groveling upon the ground and participates and imitates and expresses more of the nature of the beast then of his own There is no creature but Man that degenerates willingly from his Naturall dignitie Those degrees of goodnesse that God imprinted upon them at first they preserve still they are not departed from their Naturall dignitie for any thing they have done But of man it seems God was distrustfull from the begining he did not pronounce upon Mans Creation that he was good because his goodnesse was a contingent thing and consisted in the future use of his free will for that facultie and power of the will is virtus transformativa by it we change our selves into that we love most and we are come to love those things most which are below us Vive juxta genus tuum saith St. Ambrose to man live according to thy kind Non adulteres genus tuum doe not abuse doe not allay doe not abastardise that Noble kind that Noble nature that God hath imparted to thee imprinted in thee This whole world is one book and is it not a barb'rous thing when all the whole booke besides remaines entire to deface that leafe in which the Authors picture the image of God is expressed as in man All other creatures keep their ranks their places and natures in the world onely man himselfe disorders all and that by displacing himselfe by losing his place While wee dispute in Schooles whether if it were possible for Man to doe so it were lawfull for him to destroy any one species of Gods creatures though it were but the species of Toades and Spiders because this were a taking away one linke of Gods chaine one note of his harmony wee have taken away that which is the jewell at that chaine that which is the burden of the song insomuch that wee are not only inferiour to the beasts but wee are our selves become beasts a most lamentable descent that as God said in the beginning in contempt and in derision behold man is become as one of us so now as St. Bernard makes the note the Horse and Mule may say quasi unus ex nobis behold man is become as one of us insomuch as if the corrective part of Physick were utterly unknown in the world and the friendly offices it might performe to Nature were quite excluded the use of Man and no care continued to prevent the increase of Nationall monstrosities without more restraining grace the vanity of man blowne upon by the suggestions of the Enemy of Mankind would enforce and propagate so many corporall Errata's in every Region that the humane Figure would be so depraved that in time the true shape of man would be unknown or lost in an injurious crowd of deformities and although in these parts of the christian world we might think there needed not so great a Damme to be made against the inundation of this mischiefe yet if we consider how guilty the most civiliz'd Nations are of tampering with the Body to the deforming of it and to the prejudice of Natures operations and withall what foolish affectations in vests we have wherein we seem to vie deformities with the most Barbarous Nations so approving their affected shapes that wee are in a manner unciviliz'd by them wee may justly doubt whether this by the just judgment of God may not 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

People within the Main of South America called Camucujara have Paps that reach under their Waste and neere even down to their Knees and when they run or go faster than ordinary they bind them about their Waste Long Dugs affected The Azanegi magnifie very fat and grosse women especially those who have longer Dugs Munst Cosm lib. 6. cap. 50. and which hang pensile from the Breast and therefore the men there use the same violence as the Senegans do to their women Aloys Cadam to stretch them out to the measure of their Fancy insomuch as when they have once borne Children they grow longer and more ugly and filthy to behold The women of Mexico so love to have great Dugs Montaign Essay lib. 2. that they strive to have their Children suck over their shoulders In the Island Arnobon Du Pegr. Hist Ind. Orient the Nurses have so long Dugs that they cast them over their shoulders The Women of Guinea Purch Pilgr 2. lib. 7. when their Children cry to suck they cast one of their Dugs backward over their shoulders and so the Child sucketh as it hangs The Breasts the store houses of milke resemble a halfe Bowle they rise the breadth of two fingers high when maids begin to have their Courses and when they are full ripe and grown marriageable they swell so that they may be covered with the hand which Aristophanes cals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the goodly apples of the Breast And lest the heavy Breast should flag down too low because a woman goes alwaies upright they are knit and tyed by their whole Basis or Bottom to the bonie part of the Chest. A fault therefore it is in the women of Ireland and others who never tye up their Breasts but they sin with a higher hand against the Law of Nature who forcibly endeavour to breake these bonds by drawing them out unto a monstrous and ugly greatness for by this Artifice the convenient figure and decent magnitude of the Breasts which should concur to their natural constitution as it was from whence their elegant beauty should arise and the Breasts become most apt for the generation of milke The inconveniences of great Breasts as having a moderate heat and excellent conformation Let them that will extoll great Breasts like udders because they generate a great deale of milke yet it is better to have a mediocrity then such a superfluity of milke which if retained is easily corrupted in the Breasts and hence great Dugs are more obnoxious to inflamations and Cancers and being besides loose and moist they cannot retaine that temperate heat nay not only by this perversion or destruction of the naturall and convenient forme and magnitude of the Breasts and decent figure is this organicall part rendred deformed and extended beyond its just extuberancy which is accounted beautifull but this goodly sagging Dugs a Pap-fashion which they so affect is to no end unless to make their children more saddle-nosed which is the usuall inconvenience that attends them who suck Nurses with over-great laxuriant Breasts and which it may be is the intention of this practice and by spreading over the whole region of the Breasts and swagging down sometimes lower there follows one inconvenience not yet reckoned for by their extravagant expatiation and bulky weight they prove no little hinderance to respiration Nature indeed sometimes is a little luxuriant and extuberant in the Breasts of some women a remarkable History whereof Salmuthus hath of a Patient of his Salm. Medicin observ the wife of a noble Secretary who before marriage was endowed with great Breasts which notwithstanding at the first time of her impregnation did increase and rise to a greater nay even a most horrid bulke and they alwaies after her conception did so encrease that they were wont to hang down even unto her knees at which strange case Salmuthus stood amazed when her husband shewed her Breasts unto him to be cured The chiefe use of the Breasts wondring at the matter which otherwise useth to be collected towards the Child in the wombe making together the Belly tumid that so great quantity should ascend upwards or creepe to the Breasts whence he observed that there is not only a consent between the Veines of the Wombe and Breast but a conflux also But although Nature forced thereto against her will prevaricates in the shape of the Breasts and Divine Providence hath gone beyond the Rules to which she hath necessarily constrained us it is not to give us a dispensation from them they are blows of his Divine hand which we ought not to imitate but admire as extraordinary examples and markes of an expresse and particular avowing of the severall kinds of wonders which for a testimony of his omnipotency he affordeth us beyond our orders or forces which it is folly and impiety to go about to represent and which we ought not to follow but contemplate with admiration and meditate with astonishment being Acts of his Personage and not of ours Another thing discommendable in some of these Nations is that they take these loathsome lovely long Breasts to be a goodly thing and that they go naked to shew them for a bravery the chiefe use of the Breasts being the generation of milke that they may be ashamed who for nicity and delicacy do forfeit this principall use of these excellent parts and make them only Stales or Bawds of Lust as too many Ladies amongst us do who by opening these common shops of temptation invite the eyes of easie Chapmen to cheapen that flesh which seemes to lye exposed as upon an open Stall to be sould The Breasts accounted shamefull parts To whose Udders I could wish some severe Cato could present a good wholesome morall Hedgehog to make them shut up shop and translate their Masques from their Face to their Breasts More innocent are the Maldives in the other harmelesse extreame Purch Pilgr 1. lib. 9. who count the Breasts shamefull parts not to be spoken of who carefully hide them and to speake of them they account it very lascivious and dishonest the Maids go naked untill their Breasts begin to beare out and encrease and then they think it a thing needfull to cover them holding as great a shame to shew them as their Privities The most Noble Virgins of Secota in Florida also are more modest than ours De Bry Hist Ind. who for the most part apply their hand to their shoulders so covering their Breasts in signe of Virgin modesty being naked in all the rest of their body There being good reason in Nature why women should have a modest regard of them and not so openly expose them because the consent between the Breasts and Wombe is very great in so much as the only contrectation of them provoketh Lust Another and that no small aggravation of their offence against Nature is that these women should so love to have great Dugs that

it to the rest of the Face it ought to have the proportion of a halfe part to a duple its longitude also naturally is such that the front is likewise in a duple proportion of one to two you may conferre it with the gyre of the hinder part of the Head after this manner let the occiput of a man well proportioned be measured with a thread beginning at the part of the Temples wherein the Haires terminate the Forehead and leading it round in orb by the occiput untill you end in the other part of the Temples this thread will prove halfe the length which is from both the Temples by the front and Synciput this is the length of the Forehead and is to the circumference of the Occiput under which the last venter of the braine is and the beginning of the After-braine as one to two and its altitude to the rest in like manner and to the whole Face that it is its third not otherwise also then it is the third part of the whole circumference of the Head This Forehead is also called a great Forehead Cloudy Foreheads affected if it be compared with a feminile Forehead and it appeares so much the greater the more it approacheth to a plainnesse being neither globous nor tuberous as the Forehead of Women Boyes or those which transposed beyond Nature by the violence of Art are The reason why the Forehead should rather draw nigh to a certaine plainnesse then a concavity or a convexity is this for that plainnesse is a certaine meane between a convex and a concave figure Now a front that is disposed according to Nature comes into a Naturall mediocrity because that conduceth most to the advantage of Man that he might be vigorous in sence and memory which he cannot well exercise unlesse he have an out-jetty of the occiput which could not be done unlesse the part of the Spheare opposite unto it should be pressed together therefore it is so framed that a plaine Forehead is adjoyned to a tuberous occiput A contrivance cleane crossing the intention of Nature Stigmatiz'd Fore-heads who never meant the Forehead should be alwaies cloudy nor ever cleere but to change scenes occasionally according to the severall affections of the mind The ingenious Women are marked with certaine notes in the Forehead Johan Bohem. de moribus lib. 3. which is accounted a kind of generosity they esteeming it an argument of ignoblenesse to be without them Among the Thracians also these frontall characters were most familiar Pancerol tit 2. de porcell and esteemed a great ensigne of Honour and Nobility Cicero's phrase is that they were notis compuncti and hence such marks were called Threiciae notae and many of the Indians are at this day of the same opinion and practise I remember to have seen in London a well favoured Blackmore Boy who had the mark of a barbed Arrow standing in the midst of his Forehead The penall lawes of some states have indeed inflicted upon runnegate slaves and Malefactors Spotted Foreheads as notes of slavery and infamy branded markes on the Forehead but for Men ingenious and free to affect such stigmaticall characters as notes of bravery and Ensignes of Honour and Nobility is a very strange phantasticall prevarication for Nature never intended the Forehead to be Tanquam rasa Tabula a faire blanke table of the affections and a plaine Index of the mind not to be charged with our artificiall characters but the Naturall impression of motion only Purchas pilgr. 2. lib. 10. The Bramines of Agra marke themselves in the Forehead Eares and throat with a kind of yellow geare which they grinde and every morning they doe it and so doe the Women Idem eod lib. 9. The Gentiles of Indostan Men and Women both paint on their Foreheads and other parts of their Faces red or yellow spots The Gusaretes and Banianes of Cambaia they weare a Starr upon their Forehead which they rubb every morning with a litle white saunders tempered with Water and three or four grains of Rice Lindschot l. 1. The Malabars and Mestichos have also some such Frontall custome Pet. Mart. d ee 1. The Cyguanians are of a horrid aspect much like the People called Agathyrsis of whom the Poet Virgill speaketh for they were all painted and spotted with sundry colours and especially with black and red which they make of certain fruits nourished in their Gardens for the same purpose with the juice whereof they paint themselves from the Forehead even unto the knees Painted Foreheads which painting the Spaniard used as a stratagem to take their King The Relator saith that a Man would think them to be incarnate Divels broke out of Hell they are so like Hell-hounds I am sure they violate and impudently affront Nature thus to obscure the Naturall seat of shame and modest bashfulnesse with their painting so that the flushings of the Purple blood which Nature sends up to releive the Front in the passion of shame cannot significantly appeare in their Native hue Beetle-browes affected SCENE IV. Eye-brow Rites or the Eye-brows abus'd contrary to Nature Ex relatione amici ingeniosi THe Russian Ladies tie up their Foreheads so strict with fillets which they are used to from their Infancy that they cannot move their Eye-brows or use any motion the meaner sort also affect it the skin is so streined that one would wonder how they could endure it but they being used unto it from their infancy it is easie What a plot have these Women upon Nature thus to bind their Eye-brows to the observation of so strict and unnaturall a silence to hinder her in one of her most significant operations and to exclude that part of the mind which useth to be exhibited by the Eye-brows Montaigne in his Essaies Among some Nations Beetle-brows are in fashion which is not only quite against Zeno's Philosophy but against the ordinance of Nature thus perversely to joyn whom she hath separated Stiff strein'd Foreheads and Beetle-brows affected For this intercilar space was intended by Nature to distinguish and divide the hairy arches of the Eye and to make good that laudable duplicity or Naturall fraternitie of the parts of the Face In the Indies Purchas his Pilgr the Cumanans pluck off all the Haire of their Eye-brows taking great pride and using much superstition in that unnaturall depilation In Nombre de Dios Lindschot li. 2. the Women with a certaine Hearb make the Haire of their Eye-brows fall off In Peru they use offerings in pulling off the Haire of their Eye-brows to offer unto the Sun Purchas his Pilgrimage The Brasilians also eradicate the Haire of their Eye-brows Idem eodem From the perpetuall magnitude of these Haires Gal. 10. de usu partium and those of the Eyelids Galen takes an occasion to deride Moses and Epicurus Rabi Moses in Aphorism Montanus Med.

hedge-hogs this is part of their gallantry for if they are sad or crossed with any disaster they leave all those holes open They of Madagascar De Bry. pars 9. have Eares bored through with large holes so that you may put a finger through them in which they weare round pieces of wood Eares full of gilded nailes Purchas Pilgr 2. lib. 9. The Gentiles of Indostan their women have the flaps or neither part of their Eares bored when they are young See the like figure fol. 148. which daily stretched and made wider by things kept in for that purpose at last becomes so large that it will hold a ring as bigg as a little saucer made on the sides for the flesh to rest in besides round about their Eares are holes made for Pendants that when they please they may weare rings in them also Idem eodem lib. 9. In Candou Islands one of the Islands accounted to Asia they weare in their Eares very rich Pendants according to their Wealth but they weare them not after the same fashion as wee doe here for the mothers pierce the Eares of their daughters when they are young not onely in the lap or fat of the Eare but all along the gristle in many places and put their threads of cotton to encrease and keep the holes that they may put when they are greater little gilded nailes to the number of 24 in both Eares the head of the naile is commonly adorned with a pretious stone or Pearle also in the lap of the Eare they have an Eare-ring fashioned after their manner Idem eodem lib. 9. Many of the Men and Women in the Cape of Lopo Gonsalves weare Rings in their Eares whereof some weigh at least a pound some have sticks thrust through them of five or six fingers long Lindschoten lib. 2. The Brasilean women bore their Eares with so wide holes that a man may thrust his finger through in them they hang certaine long things which reach unto their Breasts or shoulders like blood-hounds or water spaniels Eares Auricular bravery The naturall Inhabitants of Virginia Purchas Pilgr 2. lib. 9. Capt. Jo. Smiths Hist of Virginia in their Eares have three great holes that is in each three wherein the women commonly hang chaines bracelets or copper the Men some of them weare in these holes a small green or yellow coloured Snake neer halfe a yard in length which crawling and lapping it selfe about their Necks oftentimes will familiarly kisse their lips some a rat tyed by the taile and some the hand of their enemy dried The inferior sort of Priests among them can hardly be known from the common People but that they have not so many holes in their Eares to hang their Jewels at In the countrie of Wingandacoa Capt. Jo. Smyths Hist of Virginia upon the continent of Virginia the Queen and principall women in their Eares weare bracelets of Pearle hanging down to their middle of the bignesse of great pease the rest of the women have pendants of copper and the Noble Men five or six in an Eare. The women of Cochin Purchas Pilgr 2. lib. 7. have horrible great Eares with many Rings set with Pearle and stones in them A little from Gambra in Africa Idem in his Pilgrimage there are found Men who use it as a great bravery to bore their Eares full of holes wearing therein Rings of Gold in rowes or ranks Idem Pilgr 2. lib. 7. The People on the southward of Tinda and Gambra are reported to weare Iron rings through their Eares Leo lib. 3. Hist Africa The women of mount Beni Jesseten doe use to weare Iron rings upon their fingers and Eares for a great barvery Purchas Pilgr 2. lib. 10. The women of Ormus weare in their Eares many Rings of Gold set with Jewels and locks of Silver and Gold insomuch that the Eares with the weight of their Jewels be easily worne so wide that a Man may thrust three of his fingers into them De Bry descript Ind. In the City Cancer not farr from Goa most of the Noble and great persons have their Eares bored with great holes and weare in them 14 or 15 Rings such as wee weare on our finger adorned with pretious stones Lindschoten lib. 1. The Bramanes have most commonly round rings of Gold hanging at their Eares as the other Indians have Io. Bohemus de ritibus gentium lib. 2. The priests of the Panchaians weare Eare-rings besides their other womanish golden Ornaments In Zeland they inrich their Eares with Gold and precious stones Magin Geogr. Hier Giravae Cosmograph and the same auricular bravery is affected by those of Florida In Pegu they loade their Eares with all sorts of Jewels insomuch Lodovic Rom. Patr. lib. 6. cap. 16. as their Eares with the weight of their Earerings hang down a span long The King of Joga's subjects Idem Navigat● 4. cap. 2. all weare Eare-rings and all manner of pretious things in their Eares In Russia it is the custome of the Countrey Johan Bohem. de ritibus gentium lib. 3. for women to weare Pearles and Jewels in their Eares it is held a beauty also to males while they are yet boyes this is also a vanitie used among the more amorous and effeminate sort of our gallants The Spanish women use to perforate the lappet of their Eare with a Gold or Silver wire Munster Cosmogr lib. 2. at which most commonly they hang some Jewell which by the French is censured as a barbarous thing The Aegyptians used to bore their Eares to make them capable of such Ornaments and the two most pretious Pearles which Cleopatra dissolved and drunk as a luxurious expression of love to Marke Antonie were pendants taken from her Eares The Greeks bore holes in the Eares of their slaves holding it for a badg of bondage Montaigne Essay lib. 2. which was practised also by the Jews The Roman Dames were much delighted with auricular bravery for Plinie writes Plinie Nat. Hist lib. 12. that they sought for Pearles from the bottom of the Red Sea Auricular Luxurie and Emeralds from the bowels of the Earth and then he adds ad hoc excogitata sunt Aurium vulnera as if it had been nothing to weare them about their necks and in their Haire unlesse they were also let into their bodies Cyprian dehorting the Xtian women from it non inferantur Auribus vulnera Seneca de vita beata cap. 17. Saith Sceneca why doth thy wife weare in her Eares the revenews of a rich family And in another place Idem de benef 7.6 I see their Pearles not fitted single to their Eares which are now inured to the bearing of weight they are coupled together and others are added to the two first the madnesse of our women had not sufficiently brought Men into subjection did not they hang two or three patrimonies at each Eare.

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

this was a fashion of old ibid. The errours of Nurses in ordering Infants tending to this mischiefe 340 The commendation of those Nations who never lace themselves but affect a round and full wast 342 343 The art they use to this purpose 344 Where the Breasts are accounted shamefull parts 315 The reason in Nature why women should have a modest regard of their Breasts ibid Breech-Gallantry 409 VVHY Man naturally hath no taile ibid. Divers tailed Nations 410 411 412 Tailed Monsters 412 How a tale comes to be monstrously added to a humane offspring 413 Sodomiticall abusers of this part noted and condemned 413 414 415 Body NAtions that embroder their skins with Iron pens and seare race pinke cut and pounce their Bodies 455 457 458 469 466 Where they have skin prints and past Garments for their Bodies 456 Where they paint their Bodies red white black blew tawney and other colours in works such as they devise 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 469 Enquire about Negroes and how so great a part of man-kinde became blacke 466 467 468 469 Nations that affect the plumage of Birds and dresse their Bodies all over with their feathers 470 471 Hairy Nations 472 The cause of Pilosity 474 Men borne with shagged Haire like a water Spanell 475 Nations that winde their bones like sinews 476 Art used to make maids fat 477 Why all men cannot be franked or made fat 478 Corpulency where in great esteem 479 Monstrous fat men 480 481 Fat folkes where in disgrace 482 Overfed-bodies encounter Nature 483 Men growing Gyants by a disease 484 The cause of tall stature 485 Meanes to accelerate growth or stature 486 487 Fatnesse when it doth prejudice Nature 488 The naturall magnitude of the Body 489 A way to make men by Art 490 The opinion of learned men touching this Artifice 491 The Pygmies of Paracelsus 492 The Commensuration of Womans Body vindicated 493 The Historyes of Pigmies maintained 494 496 497 488 Nations of little men 495 Pigmies without all question 499 Dwarfes made by art 500 The reason of dwarfish stature 501 That the Divell may make Pigmies 502 503 Histories of Giants 503 504 She Gyants 505 The cause of small stature 506 The cause of tallnesse of stature Nations of Gyants 508 Men of very tall stature 509 Over-tallnesse of stature a deformitie 510 Whether Divels may have to doe That Divels may exercise venerious acts with women 514 That Divels cannot generate upon Women 515 The Originall of Gyants 515 The supposed Originall of Neroes 516 Why the Amazons did lame their Male Children 517 An Art pretending to new make a Man 518 That Nature sometimes workes wonders in this kinde ibid. 519 That Monsters may be made by the Art of naturall Magique 520 alias 516 Mans Metamorphosis 519 alias 521 Whether Men can be transform'd into Beasts 502 alias 522 Whether Witches have power to transubstantiate others 521 alias 523 That the soule of Man cannot informe a Beasts body 522 alias 524 Transubstantiation denied 523 alias 525 Mans transformation into an Asse questioned 524 alias 526 525 alias 527 The inpiety of transubstantiation 526 alias 528 527 alias 529. Changelings and the Legerdemane thereof 527 528 alias 529 530. In the Introduction THE unimitable curiosity and exact perfection of the structure of mans Body maintained against the errour of Epicurus That it doth appeare that the humane forme hath been altered ●●a● wa●●s both by art and diurnall succession The audacious art of new moulding the body reprehended and the inconveniences thereof noted Midwives and Nurses by their unskilfulnesse or neglect the causers of the ill figure of the Body That every part of the new-born Infants Body is to be formed according to the most advantage of Nature That this is the end of Cosmeticall Physicke Mercurialis his complaint that this most noble art of Cosmetiques is growne out of use C Cheeke NAtions who bore holes in their Cheeks for a Gallantry 163 164 Where they make lines above their lips upon their Cheeks with certaine Iron Instruments 164 Cheek-markers condemned 165 Inscisions upon the Cheeke of old forbidden E Ears NAtions whose Eares doe reach the ground and who use their Eares for a couch to sleep on 141 142 143 Nations with Eares so large that they cover the rest of their Body with them ibid. An infant borne with such large and great Eares 143 Nations with their Eares hanging down to their shoulders and lower 144 145 146 By what art and industry they attaine unto so great Eares 145 146 147 Nations that bore pierce or slit the lappet of their Eares and load them with ponderous Jewels 145 146 147 148 149 Where the greatest Eares are esteemed the fairest and they accounted more honorable that have them 146 147 The deformity introduced by the artificiall great Eares 157 The use of the lobe or lower lappet of the Eare. 156 Where the wider the holes are the more noble they esteem themselves to be 146 The prodigious widenesse of their Eare-holes measured ibid. Nations with their Eares bored full of holes 149 Where long Eares are held such a note of Gallantry that they call them Apes that have not their Eares long 145 Where their Gallantry is to weare pegs of wood slender like knitting needles a finger long and make them looke like hedge-hoggs 149 Large Ear'd shee-Gallants 148 Prodigious kind of Earings and Pendants worne by most Nations 148 150 151 152 153 What beauty it was that Nature invented in the outward Ear. 155 Men with Asses Eares 159 Where People have the nether part of their Eares cut into a round circle hanging downe very low upon their Cheeks 151 152 Why man had lesse Eares assigned him then other Animals 157 The naturall proportion symetry and beauty of the Eare. ibid. and 155 The prodigious vanity of Earrings noted and exploded 154 155 The use of the outward Eare. 156 That this horrid affectation of great Eares in this pack of large Ear'd hell-hounds savours of more then the ordinary vanity incident to mankinde 157 Where they affect to have a small Eare standing close to their Head 158 What artifice and industry Nurses use to forme Infants Eares unto their minde ibid. The inconveniences of little Ears and the vanity of man in this supposed beauty and the dammage proceeds hence to the action of the Eare. 158 159 Monsters with very large double and round Eares 160 Nations the holes of whose Ears are much wider then ours ibid. Nations who have no Eares at all and yet heare most exactly ibid. Infants borne without Eares ibid. The sad condition of those who are deprived of the outward Eare. 160 161 Eyes NAtions with one Eye planted in their forehead 101 102 103 104 A Monocular childe born 104. Why man hath naturally two Eyes 101 Children borne without Eyes 104 Nations without Eyes ibid. 240 Men with foure Eyes 105 Men that have Eyes in their Shoulders ibid. 240 A man with two Eyes in the