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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

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 be either in the achma or declination of our age for although one be cram'd The cause of all stature his body is not erected in length but is dilated in bulke and breadth for the faculty whereby the body is nourished is one and that whereby it groweth up is another for truly that is conversant about the plenty of aliment this about the solid parts of the body to wit the Bones Nerves Cartilages c. Which if they increase and are stretched out in length the Creature also attaines unto an increment although it be wasted with leanenesse and consumed away Therefore Nature in producing the bones whence the heighth of man proceeds useth the force of heat whereby she not a little drieth the humours and accommodates the aliment for the nourishment of the Bones Therefore it is the Amplifying force or Faculty which formeth out in length the bones of Febricitants as wax by vertue and heat of the seminall excrement which in the vigour of age is very valid and efficacious for the performance thereof For truly if young men and boyes are accustomed to milke from their very Cradles and given to exercise they will have taller bodies and prove of a more decent and comely stature because by the drinking and use of milk the bones are nourished which is a kin to seed and an elaborate and exactly concocted bloud Moderate feeding and at set times with a discreet allowance of competent food without pinching Salmuthus cent 3. obs 70. may be the cause whence talnesse of body may arise Salmuthus in his observations speakes of a certaine mother rather to be called a Step-dame who chid her daughter who was a married wife for giving her Children too much meat Means to accelerate growth or stature that distended their stomacks and guts whence in processe of age they would grow more greedy and not easie to be satisfied Upon which occasion he cals to remembrance a contention which arose in his presence between some of the Court-women and a Physician whether Children of Princes about the sixth or seventh yeare of their age were to be allowed their Bevers or afternoons Nuncians which he denied they on the contrary were very earnest and importunate with him arguing that the native heat should not be permitted to lye idle at length after much disputation one and the chiefest among them objected to the Physician the abject stature of his body whereas if he had been brought up by his mother with a fuller Diet he had grown up into a just talnesse of Stature But let us heare what the Oracle of Humane Learning saith to this purpose Lord Bacons nat hist cent 5. To accelerate growth or stature it must proceed either from the plenty of the nourishment or from the quickning and exciting of the naturall heat for the first excesse of nourishment is hurtfull for it maketh the child corpulent and growing in breadth rather than height And you may make an experiment from plants which if they spread much are seldome tall As for the nature of nourishment first it may not be too dry And therefore Children in Dary Countries do wax more tall than where they feed more upon bread and flesh There is also a received Tale that boyling of daisie roots in milke which it is certaine are great driers will make dogs little But so much is true that an over-drie nourishment in Children putteth back stature Secondly Meanes of increase of stature the nourishment must be of an opening nature for that attenuateth the juyce and furthereth the motion of the spirits upwards neither is it without cause that Xenophon in the nourture of the Persian Children doth so much commend their feeding upon Cardamomum which he saith made them grow better and be of a more active habit Cardamomum in Latine is Nasturtium and with us water-cresses which it is certaine is an herbe that whilest it is young is friendly to life As for the quickning of naturall heat it must be done chiefly by exercise And therfore no doubt much going to schoole where they fit so much hindreth the growth of Children whereas Country people that go not to Schoole are commonly of better stature And againe men must beware how they give Children any thing that is cold in operation for even long sucking doth hinder both wit and stature this hath been tried that a whelpe that hath been fed with Nitre in milk hath become very little but extreame lively for the spirit of Nitre is cold And although it be an excellent medicine in strength of yeares for prolongation of life yet it is in children and young creatures an enemy to growth and all for the same reason for heat is requisite

Back-bone being very tender soft and moist at that age cannot stay it straite and strongly but being pliant easily permits the Spondels to slip awry inwards outwards or sidewise as they are thrust or forced Causes of Crookednesse And in another place speaking of dislocations or luxations and the causes of Bunch-backs and saddle-backs and crooked ness he saith that fluid and soft bodies such as childrens usually are very subject to generate the internall cause of these mischiefes Defluxions But if externall occasions shall concur with these internall causes the Vertebra will sooner be dislocated Thus Nurses whilst they too streightly lace the Breasts and sides of Girles so to make them slender cause the Breast-bone to cast it selfe forwards or backwards or else the one shoulder to be bigger or fuller the other more spare and leane And if this happen in Infancy the Rib● grow little or nothing in Breadth but run outwards before therefore the Chest loseth its naturall Latitude and stands out with a sharpe point hence they become Astmatick the Lungs and Muscles which serve for breathing being pressed together and streightned and that they may the easier breathe they are forced to hold up their heads whence also they seeme to have great Threats and their bodies use unto grow at the Spine and the parts belonging to the Breast and Back become more slender neither is it any wonder for seeing the Veines Arteries and Nerves are not in their places the spirits do neither freely nor the alimentary juyces plenteously flow by these streightned passages whence leannesse must needs ensue The the same errour is committed if they lay Children more frequently along upon their sides than upon their backs or if taking them up when they wake they take them only by the feet or legs and never put their other hand under their backs never so much as thinking that Children grow most towards the Heads And I would to God the vanity and indiscreetnes of Mothers in their Institution Children unborne how disfigured and precise exercise of their Laws and Customes in this matter did only take effect when they endeavour it on set purpose after the Birth of their Children and that their inconsideration and imprudency did not unwittingly many times deprave their Children even whilest they embrace them in the wombe Not to mention those impressions of deformity which depend upon Imagination frights fals or blows and evill Diet from whence much mischiefe many times proceeds to the disfiguring of the Child yet unborne To the causes of mans transformation are justly referred the undecent Session or the ill collocation of the mother in sitting or lying or any other posture of her body during the time she goes with child For hereupon not only the body of the mother but of the Child inclosed in the wombe is perverted and distorted Wherefore they who all the time of their going with Child either sit idle at home or with their legs acrosse or with bodies bowed towards their knees sew or spin or employ themselves in some other action or more streightly constringe their Bellies with long bellied and straight-laced Garments Busks Rollers or Breeches bring forth Children awry or stiffnecked bowed crooked crump-shouldered distorted in their hands feet and all their Limbs because the Child can neither move freely nor commodiously extend his members What should they do with others If they had better they would spoile them Spigelius More cautious and better advised are the Venetian Dames who never lace themselves accounting it an excellency in beauty to be round and full bodied to attaine which comely fulnesse they use all the Art possible and if they be not corpulent by Nature Round and full Bodies affected nor can be really brought to it by Art will yet counterfeit such a Habit of body by the bumbasticall dissimulation of their Garments Purch Pilgr 2. lib. 6. The Egyptian Moorish women discreetly affect the same liberty of Nature who spread their Armes under their Robes to make them shew more corpulent for they thinke it a speciall excellency to be fat and most of them are so in frequenting the Baines for certaine daies together using such frictions and Diet as daily use confirmeth for effectuall And indeed as my Lord Bacon noteth Lord Bacons nat hist cent 9. Frictions make the parts more fleshy and full as we see both in men and in the currying of Horses c. the cause is for that they draw greater quantity of spirits and bloud to the parts And againe because they draw the Aliment more forcibly from within And againe because they relax the Pores and so make better passage for the spirits bloud and aliment Lastly because they dissipate and digest an inutile or excrementitious moisture which lyeth in the flesh all which help assimulation Frictions also do more fill and impinguate the Body than exercise The cause is for that in Frictions the inward parts are at rest How to make a body fleshy and full which in exercise are beaten many times too much and for the same reason Galley-slaves are fat and fleshy because they stir the Limbs more and the inward parts lesse SCENE XXI A modest Apology Strange inventive Contradictions against Nature practically maintained by divers Nations in the ordering of their Privy-parts AFter our Historicall peregrination to discover the use and abuse of Parts being arrived at this place in the Tract of a practicall Metamorphosis I could not see how I should answer it to Nature if I had silently passed by the abuses that have been put upon her in these parts for had I given way to such an unseasonable modesty my designe had proved lame and a great part of my end and aime frustrated it being to make a thorough discovery not only of the pragmaticall vanity of man but of the raging malice of the enemy of mankind who labours to deforme and destroy the worke of Nature while after most wonderfull and strange waies he exerciseth prophane and wicked men by the law of his Tyranny to which he hath enslaved them The cause of frequent Transformations who in the first place hath laid snares for the parts of Generation there being no other part be so deadly hates not only endeavouring as Peucerus rightly notes to encrease the penalty inflicted by God upon Nature but to hinder the propagation of the remaining impression of the Image of the Archetype in man and debar his restitution which is one reason that is given by the learned Bauhinus of the cause of mans so frequent Transformation Bauhin lib. de● Hermoph I but some may say this might have been an obstacle to reveale the veile of Nature to prophane her mysteries for a little curious skill pride to ensnare mens minds by sensuall expressions seemeth a thing lyable to heavy constructions But what is this as one saith apollogyzing for himselfe in such a businesse but to arraigne Vertue at the bar of

3. cap. 5. have the same foolish affectation among them This Nation seemes to be of an opinion somewhat contrary to Momus who misliked the fashion of the Leg of man that the belly thereof or the Calfe which was seated behind in a place out of danger was furnished so with a defence of flesh and the shin-bone exposed to all encounters without any defence at all never noting that the Eyes were placed before to secure the Shins whereas there was none behind to looke to the safety of the Calfe But one would think they were aware of that notion of Physiognomy which pronounceth spine Legs almost destitute of flesh to be an argument of one prompt to venery Men with one Calfe of their Leg bigger than the other as being a sign of a libidinous Nature A fault commonly noted in women for those whose Legs or shankes are leane and have little flesh they call them leacherous and shamefull whores like unto Goates of which this cause may perchance be assigned for that the aliment is retained in the upper parts and passeth into Seed and spirits whereupon the Legs become small and leane which is manifest in them who want a foot or by any other way become lame for to those lower parts the aliment is not transmitted so copiously as before all which persons are therefore very leacherous There was a Calfe-swelling punishment inflicted upon those of Meliopore both men and women Herberts Travels Helyn Geogr for their cruell ingratitude to St Thomas martyred by them Neirembergensis cals them a peculiar Nation among the Mallabars which from a place of S. Thomas have their name and called Pencays and questions whether it be to be imputed to Nature or a Miracle And on the Tribe of Benjamin who were most fierce against our Saviour both which to this day have one leg as big again in the Calfe as the other this doubled upon them in this humour would have been kindly accepted and entertained for a fashion Yet in some parts of America it should seem they have a contrary affectation at least if I understand Appianus rightly where he saith Aetr. Appian 2. pars Cosmog cap. 4. de America Sanguinem quoque in Lumbis Tibiarum pulpis comminuunt Most free from any affectation in that part are Neatherland women who are well proportioned especially in their Legs and Feet Men and Women only have Calves in their Legs and their Legs full of flesh howbeit Pliny saies he hath read in some writers that there was one man in Aegypt had no Calfe at all to his Legs A Crane-leg'd man but was legged like a Crane Torquato T●sso in the comparison he maketh between Italy and France reported to have noted that the French commonly have more spiny and slender Legs than the Italian Gentlemen and he imputeth the cause to the French-mens continuall riding and sitting on Horseback which is the very same from which Suetonius draweth another cleane contrary conclusion for he saith Germanicus who had very small Legs had by the frequent use of this exercise brought his to be very big but he rid without Styrrups after meat the humors descending upon their pendulent instability But the Scythians by their continuall and immoderate use of Horsemanship became the most impotent and Eunuch-like men in the world as Hippocrates affirmeth of them For they being ill at ease in their Legs and Hips by reason of their continuall riding without stirrups their Legs alwaies hanging they become subject to the Sciatica or Hip-Gout and when the Disease grew strong they were lame and their Hipps contracted and crampt whereupon as if they would exhibite a medicine to the Head to restraine the Flux of the Phleagme to the lower parts they cut their veines behind the Eare whereby indeed they cured themselves but became unfruitfull and impotent And that they became impotent by cutting those Arteries Vallesius thinks happened that the Braine was weakened being deprived of the influction of the vitall Spirits wherefore it was no marvell if they became sloathfull effeminate and unable to sustaine the shock of Venus or sufficiently t●●●●t out the vehement efforts of that act for the Braine at that time is wont to labour vehemently or else saith he perchance that Nerve is cut with the veines which Andraeas Vesalius 〈…〉 legs to a convenient magnitude a man most expert in dissection reports he hath seen in many to descend from the sixt Conjugation of the Nerves of the Braine into the Testes and seminary vessels of which opinion before him Johannes Langius a learned Physitian of Germany seemes to have been of while he writes that the better portion of the Prolofique Seed flows down from the Braine and spinall marrow by the Veines and the Arteries of the Temple the Parotides Veines behind the Eares to the Loines and the Seminary vessels which appeares to be so in that at the effusion of the Seed the Eyes twinckle and that the Braine is dried with Copulation whence it is that hot and fat humour being consumed in that congression leacherous men do sooner wax bald Where the Legs either by the lapse of Nature or by accident are lesse than the naturall and decent proportion the Corrective part of Physique justly taketh place to encrease them to a due magnitude Gal. lib. 5. de Tuenda sanitat Galen affords us a method in this businesse where he speakes of the correcting and repairing of members and he gives an example of a boy of thirteene yeares of age who had small spindle Shankes who by causing the Aliment to be moderately drawn to that place and the parts indifferently rubb'd and chaf'd and causing him to use baths and convenient aliment by this meanes brought the little Legs of that boy to a convenient magnitude a good notion for Gentlemen Vshers if they have any mind to have the Leg repaired and would save the Charges of Bombasted Artificiall Calfes We justly account a high pitcht Calfe the best proportion and therefore we alwaies stroake up the Calfes of our Legs High pitch'd low-pitch'd Calfes by whom affected Our Lancashire men are noted by Camden to have such cleane and handsome shaped Legs The Irish who are good Footmen as I have heard count a low-pitcht Calfe the best Leg and therefore they stroake down the Calfes of their Legs a high great bellied Leg it may be being found somewhat inconvenient in running of long Races but it is thought by some that they do so The impertinency of tampering with Childrens weake legs because they affect a long full small Many times Children about the second yeare of their Age when they begin to go are wont to vari and go wide and stradling with their Feet their Knees inclining to each other About this feared deformity their mothers being solicitous crave help of Chirurgions who for the most part endeavour with divers Machins to erect and keep straight their Legs and Thighs but in vaine because