we have seen in the desart places where they use Trees and Plants wound and made up together in that artificiall manner and wrought together with that thicknesse over head to keep away the sun and shade the ground which hath been smoothed underneath and all things in the manner and shape of an excellent Arbour which place they have only used and kept for their dancing and recreation that no man living that should have come by chance and seen the same without the knowledge of these unlucky things but would have confidently supposed it had and must have been the handy-worke of man And verily it is a most wonderfull to consider what rationall actions these kind of Creatures will do Scaliger in Comment in Arist Hist Animal lib. 2. c. 83. exercitat 213. Scaliger it seemes was much taken up with the contemplation of their man-like properties for he hath made a very pleasant recitall of his observations whose elegant description of their manners deserves the curious inquisition of the Ingenious Camerarius memorabil med Cent. 9. and which Camerarius hath thought worthy to be inserted into the Centuries of his memorable and wonderfull secrets of Nature Thus as a moderne Poet unhappily sings When men began to grow unlike the Gods Apes grew to be like men Sea-men or men-fishes That some Fishes resemble men in their faces hands and other parts is no Fable for such are not only recorded by the Ancients but also have been seen by late Navigators Lerius saw none of them yet relates that an American fisherman cut off the hand from one of those Fishes which did offer to get into his boat the hand had five distinct fingers like ours and in his face he resembled a man Scaliger writes that one of those Sea-men or men-fishes was seen by Hierom Lord of Noricum which laid hold on the Cable of his Ship this story he related as a truth to Maximilian the Emperour Such a one was seen in the time of Augustus another in the time of Tiberius a third under Nero. These Fishes were anciently called Tritons Nereides and Sirens one of those Scaliger saw at Parma about the bignesse of a Child of two yeares old It is written of the River Colhan in the Kingdome of Cohin among the Indians Plin. Aelian Theod. Gaza Trapezuntius that there are some humane shaped Fishes there called Cippae which feed upon other fishes these hide themselves in the water by day but in the night time they come out upon the bankes and by striking one flint against another make such a light that the Fishes in the water being delighted with the sparkes flock to the bankes so that the Cippoe fall upon them and devoure them But most strange is that we read of in the story of Harlem in Holland out of whose Lake was fished a Sea-woman which by a spring-tide had been carried thither when she was brought into the Town she suffered her selfe to be cloathed and to be fed with bread milke and other meats she learned also to spin to kneele before the Crucifix The opinions of the Learned concerning semi-men and semi-beasts and to obey her Mistris but she could never be brought to speake and so remained for divers yeares dumbe Indeed the bodies of other Creatures are not capable of mans soule because they are not of that Fabrick temper and constitution if they were capable yet for want of fit Organs the soule could not exercise her actions as in this story of the Sea-woman And of Apuleius who could never be brought to speake or write Nor are they men although they have the outward shape for it is not the matter nor outward Lineament but the forme that gives essence and denomination Many learned men as Pindarus Plutarch Pareus and others Plut. in lib. inscript an Brutâ—â—ratio insit reduce the causes of these horrid deformities and transfigurations of the humane forme to the promiscuous confusion of the seed of divers Species whence semi-men and semi-beasts do often result wherefore they in a wonderfull manner inveigh against men who neither fearing God nor the Laws become so subject to their lust that they put no difference between themselves and beasts whilest they dare to mingle with them Plin. lib. 7. nat Hist Pliny where he speakes of the Hippocentaure which was borne in Thessalie and after it was dead by the command of Claudius Caesar was brought unto him out of Egypt embalmed in honey seemes to favour this opinion which opinion is more established because upon the dispersing of Nations after the deluge Lust lasciviously running a debauched course through very wickednesse the licentiousnesse of inordinate concupiscence introduced many deformities and defoedations of the Humane forme yet there are many of the Learned that cannot wholly embrace this opinion Since it cannot be according to the Doctrine of Aristotle The causes of monstrous deformities that out of the permixtion of Creatures very discrepant in Species temperature and gestation of the wombe any issue should result wherefore although it is confessed for a truth that monsters want determinate causes because they are effects not intended by Nature but are only procreated by accident yet they are faine to have recourse to other naturall causes Arist Lect. 4. problem 13.14 The Philosopher hath left it upon record that these monstrous depravations of the humane forme are sometimes occasioned through corrupt seed but by corrupt seed he doth not understand seed altogether putrified but only that wherein the virtue of the whole Species doth languish whereupon either the whole Foetus or some parts thereof are produced unlike to the Genitors for when the virtue Formatrix finds the matter of the Foetus rightly disposed then it procreates an issue like to the Generator if otherwise unlike besides this they fetch causes from the Alimentary virtue from hereditary diseases and from monstrous and deformed Parents the narrowness of the place not allowing roome for two seeds to dilate for the forming of two but forcing them to a coalescence but to omit all other vitious dispositions which corrupt the naturall principles destined to generation and conformation Vehement imagination which possesseth the greatest force of hindering the matter of seed is commonly the cause of these monstrosities for even as it happens that a woman with child imprints the image of that she longs for on the Child she goeth with so it may happen that a woman impleat with humane seed if she afterwards lye with a Dog out of the assiduous cogitation and feare of bringing forth a Dog imprints the parts of a Dog upon the fruit in her wombe Whether Bruits may conceive by Men and women by Bruits and then it is not to be said that the off-spring was produced from the Dogs seed since there is no conveniency observed between the humane and canine seed Yet it is not denied that from divers Animals being of a convenient nature and temperament
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
forth the differences and severall sorts of Hermophradites in these words Differentiae quatuor Leonide Auctore existunt tres quidem in viris una in mulieribus In viris siquidem alias juxta regionem inter scrotum anum alias in medio scroto forma muliebris pudendi pilis obsiti apparet Tertia verò ad haec accedit in qua nonnulli veluti ex pudendo quod in scroto est urinam profundunt In mulieribus supra pudendum juxta pubem virile genitale frequenter reperitur quibusdam Corporibus extantibus uno tanquam Cole duobus autem veluti testiculis Sic mero Isaac Israelita Solomonis Arabiae regis filius adoptivus Hoc licet tempore sit naturale in viro tamen turpius In viro muliere fit quatuor modis tribus in viro uno in foemina Viris fit in pectine in testiculis velut vulna vera mulieris pilosa ut in foeminis Tertius modus est gravior quia per virgam vulvam mingunt Mulieribus vulva sit in pectine sub vulva post veretrum maximi testiculi Ei licet in his utriusque sexus genitalia sint eorum unum tamen altero sit luxuriosius potentius etsi sunt alii Hermophroditi qui in utroque sexu omnino impotentes sint Those who are curious to know more of this ugly representation may find satisfaction in the Chapter of Differences of Hermophradites written by the same Author And what Cure this vile deformity admits The causes of Hermophiadites the same Author affords in this place There is a Booke written in French called the Hermophradite Vide licet lib. 1. Hermoph cap. 38. which doth notably set forth the effeminacy and prodigious tendernesse of this Nation But let us a little examine the Causes of their Generation De medicin Com. 1. Dial. 5. Andernacus to Mathetis enquiring why Nature in Humane Bodies doth so mock and laugh man to scorne Answers saies he knows no other cause besides the influx of the stars intempestive copulation and evill diet since at this day there is such corruption of life and manners and so great Lust that it is no wonder if men altogether degenerate into Beasts And although Naturall Philosophers and Physicians partly impute this conjunction of Sexes to the material and efficient Cause and partly to the Cells of the Wombe Yet those causes sound to me most probable which are alleaged à Decubitu and the time of Conception Sunt enim qui velint horum generationem causari à decubituminùs convenienti vel in congressu vel post congressum In congressu quidem monente Lemnino indecenti non nunquam ait vitiosus hic infamisque conceptus ex indecoro concubitu conflatur cùm praeter usum ac comoditatem exercendae veneris virsupinus mulier prona decumbit magno plerunque valetudinis dispendio ut qui ex inverso illo decubitu herniosi efficiuntur praesertim cum distento oppletoque cibis corpore inusitata hac inconcessáve venere utuntur A decubitu supino post congressum sic enim Dominicus Terellius in muliere posteaquam virile semen receperit in utero positura corporis observanda Semper vitanda est quae modo supino fit The reasons are here alleadged Androgyni In Bauhin li. 1. cap. 30. Hormoph Pierius Fenestella Annal. Tertul. advers Valent. c. 33. which appeares by your Lunensian women who taking no care to this supine positure after conception bring forth more Hermophradites many Authors taking notice of store of Hermophradites among the Lunensians By which discourse you may see what a hand the lust and folly of a man hath in this Hemophraditicall Transformation or Androginall mixture Those who in old time were called by the name of Androgyni were reputed then for prodigious wonders Howbeit as Pliny notes Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 7. cap. 3. Aul. Gel. l 9. c. 4 Isidor lib. 11. cap. 3. Jul. Obseq lib. prodig in his time men tooke delight and pleasure in them M. Messala C. Livius Consuls in Umbria there was a Semi-man almost twelve yeares old by the command of the Aruspices slaine L. Meteblus and Q. Fabius Maximus Consuls there was an Hermophradite borne at Luna Idem by command of the Southsayers cast into the sea P. Africanus C. Fulvius Consuls Idem in the Country of Ferretinnum there was an Hermophradite borne and carried unto the River Gn. Domitius Cajus Fannius Consuls Idem in Foro Vessonum another borne and cast into the Sea L. Aurelius and L. Caecili'us Consuls Idem about Rome there was another Hermophradite some eight yeares old found and carried unto the sea L. Caecilius L. Aurelius Consuls Idem there was another about ten yeares old found at Saturnia and drowned in the Sea Q. Metellus Tullius Didius Consuls Idem another was carried from Rome and drowned in the Sea A course taken to prevent Courses Cn. Cornelius Lentulus P. Licinius Consuls there was an Androgynus found Idem and carried to the Sea Beyond the Nasamones and their neighbours confining upon them the Matchlies there be found ordinarily Hermophradites called Androgyni of a double nature and resembling both Sexes Male and Female who have carnall knowledge one of another interchangeably by turnes as Caliphanes doth report Cited by Pliny Nat. Hist lib. 7. Aristotle saith moreover that on the right side of their breast they have a little teat or nipple like a man but on the left side they have a full pap or dug like a woman Montuus de Med. Thoresi lib. 1. cap. 6. I knew saith Montuus an Hermophradite who was accounted for a woman and was married to a man to whom she bore some sons and daughters notwithstanding he was wont to lye with his maids and get them with child This is remarkable Anno 1461. in a certaine City of Scotland there was an Hermophrodite maid got her Masters Daughter with child who lay in the same bed with her Veinrichius Com. de Monstris pag. 7. facie aversa being accused of the Fact before the Judges she dyed being put into the ground alive The Tovopinambaultian women of Brasill in in America Purch Pilgr 4. lib. 7. never have their Flowers not liking that purgation it is thought they divert that flux by some meanes unknown to us for the Maids of twelve yeares old have their sides cut by their mothers from the armehole down unto the knee with the very sharpe tuske of a certaine beast the young Girles gnashing with their Teeth through the extremity of the paine some conjecture they prevent their monthly flux by this remedy Women affecting streightnesse Concerning the nature of the Menstruall bloud there hath been and yet is hard hold and many opinions among Physicians All agree that this bloud is an excrement for like a superfluity it is every month driven forth the Wombe but many would have it an unprofitable
excrement and of a noxious and hurtfull quality but I am of the contrary opinion to wit that it is naturall and profitable and that it is in its own nature laudable and pure bloud and no way offensive unto the woman but only in the quantity thereof as is by some evicted by the Authority of the Ancients and by invincible and demonstrative arguments So that the impurity of the Courses is not so great as some would have it the menstruall bloud being only abundant in women and hath no other fault at all in sound bodies and is but abusively call'd an excrement Unthankefull therefore are those Tovopinambaultian women to Nature who seeme to abhor so signall a benefit of hers in endeavouring to divert the ordinary course of Nature More respective to Nature are the women of Iucaia who when the Menstrua begin to come Petr. Mart. Decad. 7. as if they were to be brought to a man to be married the Parents invite the Neighbours to a banquet and use all signes and tokens of joyfulnesse In the Kingdome of Monomotapa the maids are not to be married till their Menstrua or naturall purgations testifie their ability for conception Helyn Geogr. The women of Vraba have a most streight and narrow neck of their wombe Consal Ovied Hist Iud. Spigel Hum. corp Fahr l. 1. that they very hardly admit a man A quaere about womens streightnesse which Spigelius thinks happens to them by Art and not by any benefit of Nature since it is known that they much affect such a streightnesse the men of that Countrey as it is likely delighting in none but such who have that accommodation It may be a Quare whether these women owe not somewhat of this strictnesse to the indulgent artifice of their Midwives And whether their Navils were not cut shorter at the birth to make them forsooth modester and their wombes narrower according to the conceit and practice of the European Midwives I confesse Spigelius and all our Modern Writers jeere at this and he makes himselfe merry with this opinion for saith he if it were in the power of women to make the Privities greater or lesser by cutting off the Navell string in sober sadnesse all women labouring with child would complaine of Midwives and that deservedly too because they left not a great part of their Navell string when they were borne that so their Privities being large they might be delivered with the more ease Yet Mizaldus orders it to be cut long in Female children because the Instruments of Generation follow the proportion of it and therefore if it be cut too short in a Female it will be a hinderance to her having of children Taisnier the famous Chiromancer and Astrologer affirmes the same thing The generall conceit of the Italians in this matter causeth the same industrious affectation of Art in your Italian Dames It being a familiar and common thing with the Italian Curtezans with astringent Pessaries by Art to make the neck of their wombe as streight as they list And honest Matrons Mischiefes ensuing affected streightnesse to satisfie the wanton curiosities of their Husbands use the same Art who have many times proved very unhappy in the miserable and dangerous effect of that Artifice and have dearly paid for their foolish officiousnesse with a sad bitternesse of experience too late repenting them of trying of such a conclusion as shuts up the gate of birth themselves with their dead-borne children thereby perishing together Nor is this Artifice altogether unknown unto the women of other Countries Observ med Decad. 3. cas 5. in Schol. Hachstetterus narrat Ancillam quandam sponsam procul dubio ut sponso virgo quae non erat appareret balnco in quo radices consolidae majoris decortae erant usam fuisse in quod cum hora inscia insedisset Ei ita orificium pudendi coarctatum fuit ut Maritus uxorem claustrum virginale recepisse miraretur Et Nicolus Florentinus refert se vidisse mulierem quae post partum cùm obstetrices adhibuissent medicamenta valdè astringentia ita clausa reddita fuit ut non potuerit coitum exercere Et cum Sennerto loqui hoc institutum ut in scortis culpandum ita in honestis mulieribus non reprehendendum si ipsis hoc vitium post partum accidat potest enim cervicis uteri amplitudo causa sterilitatis esse interdum pro cidentiae uteri praeterea vitium hoc mulieres viris ingratas reddit et hic quaestio resolvitur An Sinûs muliebris adstrictio angustia certum virginitatis signum sit Quod negandum The women of Siam are contrary minded Herb. Travels both in their opinions and practice for to see a Virgin there at Virgins yeares is as a black Swan in regard in their green yeares they give the too forward Maids a virulent drinke whose virtue vice rather is by a strange efficacy to distend their Muliebria so capaciously Where they sew up their Females that the Bels which the men weare in their Yards with rope-ring too easily may enter Purch Pilgr 2. lib. 9. The Maracatos within the Land of Brava have a fashion to sew up the Females especially their Slaves being young to make them unable for Conception which makes these Slaves sell dearer for their Chastity and for better confidence their Mistresses put in them Among the Peguans there are some that sew up the privy member of their Female Children as soone as they are borne leaving them but a little hole to avoid their urine and when she marrieth the husband cutteth it open and maketh it as great and as little as he will which they with a certaine ointment or salve can quickly heale Lindscot Travels lib. 1. c. 17. Lindscoten saw one of these women in Goa whom the Chirurgion of his Master in the Arch-Bishops house did cut open Men would judge saith he all these things to be Fables yet they are most true for I do not only know it by the daily traffique of the Portugals out of India thither but also by the Peguans themselves whereof many dwell in India some of them being Christians which tell it and confesse it for a truth as also the neernesse of place and neigbourhood maketh it sufficiently known Helyn Ethiop Infer The people of Quilea of the Province of Zanziber in Ethiopia Inferiour have among them the same strange fashion which may be mentioned rather for variety than decency They use when they have any Female Children born unto them to sew up the privy passages of Nature Virginity secured leaving only a small passage for the Urine Thus sewed they carefully keep them at home untill they come to marriageable age then they give them to their neighbours for Wives And of what ranck or condition she be which is found by her Husband to want the signe of her perpetuall Virginity is with all kind of ignominy and digrace sent home
unto her Parents and by them as opprobriously received And it seemes they confide in no evidence but their own ocular Chirurgery here Petrus Bembo saies Pet. Bembo Lib. Hist Venet. they give their Daughters in marriage thus sewed but first that care is left unto and lies upon the Bridegroome to cut and divide with an Iron Instrument the conglutinated lips of the neck of the wombe In so great honour with those Barbarians in marrying a wife is the certaine assurance of incorrupt Virginity who little trusting to the fraile inclosure of Nature do secure with more strong guards the fortresse of Virginity Had these people known the famous Liniment of Paracelsus which but smeared upon the opening of the mouth in a moment forsooth will contract and conglutinate that Orifice they would it may be have stood in little need of needle and thread and such dolorous punctures for sewing up this suspected passage It should seeme these people are loath to trust the security of Nature More cruelly jealous of their Daughters than the Venetians are of their Wives on whom they hang a padlock And surely they have a slight opinion of Hymen and either know it not or are not willing to confide in it whereas the Jews were no way doubtfull of it And Spigelius and many other Anatomists could by ocular experience satisfie them concerning Natures constant provision to preserve virginal integrity The practice of Irish women for easie Delivery Certainly these Nations would have been well pleased if Nature had produced all their Females imperforated and the Orifice of their wombs closed and sealed up or the Hymen so thick and fleshy that it streightned the passages of Nature that it needed incision an evill which holds proportion in men when the Prepuce grows unto the Nut. It is thought that the Irish women are wont to breake the Os pubis or share-bone of their Female children as soone as they are borne to make them have more easie labour when they come to child-bearing And it is well known that your Irish women have very quick and easie deliverance in Child-birth I confesse I could not in a long time by any enquiry receive full satisfaction concerning this practical endeavour of the Irish nor discover any thing thereof in Books Yet I encline to beleeve the Report because it is an Invention somewhat rationable Yet since the first impression of this Book I have been assured of this practice by a Gentlewoman who was present at an Irish womans Labour in Ireland For in the conformation of the share and Hanch-bone there appears a singular benefit of Nature conferr'd upon women who providing with all Art for the paines of Child bed would have the closing of the Share-bone loosed for the facility of Birth and therefore the Cartilagineous coupling of the Share-bone is in women more soft and in women with Child a little before their delivery more thick embued with an unctious humour Touch also and fight do manifestly perceive the divulsion of the Share-bone for if you lift up one Leg of a woman lately delivered The practice of Irish women examined you shall perceive the spine of the share-bone to rise up in the other The truth of this thing may be confirmed by Authority for to omit the well known opinion of Hippocrates Alex. Benedict lib 5. Anat. c. 3. Gorraeus Com. in Hippoc de natura pueri Aetius Tetra 4. Serm 4. cap. 22. Jacob. Carpuâ— in sua Anat. Sylvius in Isagoge Anatom Aristotle Riolanus Schola Anatomica and Avicen many others do witnesse of the bones of the Ilium and Pecten are opened or seperated to wit the joynts relaxed not exarticulated but justly said to be loosed because that great distention seemes to be quaedam species solutae continuitatis and this is naturally although at other times they are most strongly bound together But there is little need of witnesses in so manifest a businesse experience only to whom the best appeale is made in this Anatomicall controversie may make it credible to whom Physitians think they are bound to give more respect than unto Reason for Riolanus affirmes that he thrice in the presence of Physitians and Chirurgions saw the Cartilage which holds together the bones of the share loosed and relaxed a fingers breadth but that which makes somewhat more to this purpose Fernel lib. 6. Pathologiae Aethius Tetra 4. Serm. 4.6.22 Fernelius among the causes of a difficult birth reckons the more firme compaction of the share-bones when they cannot be dilated in the Birth Now if upon this account the Irish women obtaine a more than ordinary faculty of dispatch in Child-birth it is likely the force they use to their Female Infants as soone as they are borne may relax the Ligaments and move the tender Share-bones to a competent Dilation that may prove afterwards productive of such an effect And it may be the women of the Conarins Corumbins and other Provinces of India who scarce travel at all they are so soon delivered from the paine and perill of Child-birth if they do not rather receive the benefit from the temper of the Climates and the favourable indulgence of the Genius of the Place use some such kind of Artifice conducible to this end Nations with great privy members although the report of their practice hath not yet arrived at our eares As for the matter of Fact taking it for granted it pretends to work a mitigation in that pronounced woe in Dolore paries but this is not the only way that man hath endeavoured to ease himselfe of those inconveniences his transgression hath entailed upon him Purch Pilgr 2. lib. 7. They of Guinea have a great privy member much surpassing our Country-men whereof they make great account Richard Jobs Golden Trade I read in Jobsons discovery of the River Gambra and the Golden Trade of the Aethiopians of a Town called Cassan which is the Kings Seat and by the name of which Towne he holds his Title King of Cassan seated upon the Rivers side of Gambra The Inhabitants of which Towne and parts thereabout being Subjects to the Great King of Cantare and of Bursall By a conjecturall Geography I take this Cassan to be that which Cardan calls Cassena a Region in Affrica and although I read nothing here concerning their great Noses yet I meet with a strange report touching the magnitude of that part which answers to the Nose His discourse runs after this manner Undoubtedly these people originally sprung from the race of Canaan the Son of Ham who discovered his Father Noahs Secrets for which Noah awaking cursed Canaan as our holy Scripture testifieth the Curse as by Schoolemen hath been disputed extended to this ensuing Race in laying hold upon the same place where the originall cause began Men with members like Asses whereof these people are witnesses who are furnished with such members as are after a sort burthensome unto them whereby their women
being once conceived with Child so soone as it is perfectly discerned accompanies the man no longer because he shall not destroy what is conceived to the losse of that and danger of the Bearer neither untill she hath brought up the Child to a full and fitting time to be weaned which every woman doth to her own Child is she allowed in that Nature the mans society so that many times it falls he hath not a wife to lye withall and therefore hath allowance of other women for necessities sake which may seem not over-strange unto us in that our Holy Writ doth make mention thereof as you may read in the 23 Chapter of the Prophet Ezekiel where Ierusalem and Samaria being called by the name of two Sisters Ahola and Aholiba being charged with Fornication are in the twentieth verse of the same Chapter said to do at upon those people whose Members were as the members of Asses and whose Issue was like the issue of Horses therein right and amply explaining these people The Turks who as I heare by a Traveller are Mentulatiores and these would have made brave Companions for Heliogabalus that extreame luxurious Emperour Lamprid. in vita ejus who gathered together a number of these well weaponed men whom he called Nasatos Vasatos Onobolos id est Mentulatiores whom he made use of to satisfie his inordinate Lust. As for the virile member it is of such length and magnitude as the necessity of the kind requireth for procreation Magnitudo membri virilis conformed according to the Law of Nature in one of a just age Quando erigitur obtinet sex uncias longitudine quatuor in Perepheria Although it varies much according to the race of Families and course of Life for there are certaine Families and as you see Nations who have an ill or a good report according to this very thing And how much frequent coition conferreth to the accession of its augmentation they daily are advised of who more often or with more alacrity descend into venerean encounters and indeed the length and thickness thereof varies in respect of the particular creature or individuum because it is formed according to the proportion of the members yet sometimes it is larger in a little man because of the abundance of the proportion of Fathers seed of which it is framed for the Seed falleth from every part of a mans body and carrieth in it power of generating that part from whence it fell But it may be these Guineans tamper not with Nature but have this prerogative from the subtle indulgency of their Midwives For it is thought it will be longer if the Navel-strings be not close knit by the Midwives when the Child is new-borne and that because of a Ligament which commeth to the Navill from the bottome of the bladder which they call Urachos for the straighter that is tyed to the Navell the more the bladder and the parts adjoyning are drawn upward Yet Spigelius saies he cannot well conceive in his mind how this can be done But for the matter of practice he reports that upon this conceit Midwives leave a longer part of the Navell-string of a Male than they do of a Female because in Males they would have the Instrument of Generation long Whether the Navell appeared in our prototype that so they may not be cowards in the Schooles of Venus Now if the supposition be true we are all at the mercy of the Midwives for our sufficiencie In which operation Authors make much adoe and Midwives at present can scarce agree about the place The distance the Navell-string should be cut off from the Childs body Aetius prescribes to be foure fingers breadth Aetius lib. 4. c. 3 in his direct to Midwives a woodden direction saith Mr Culpepper because Midwives fingers differ so much in breadth he will imagine it to be meant foure inches and saith the Ancients jumped generally in that opinion This Tortuosity then or complicated nodosity which we usually call the Navell occasioned by the Colligation of vessels is a knot contrived by the Midwife and ensuing upon this action being a part after parturition of no profit or ornament And therefore at the Creation or extraordinary formation of Adam who immediately issued from the Artifice of God nor also that of Eve who was not solemnly begotten but suddenly framed and anamalously proceeded from Adam was any such knot as we now behold in our selves to be seen for it cannot be allowed Dr Brown Pseudo doxia Epid. l. 5. c. 5. as the Ingenious Reformer of popular errours demonstrates except we impute that unto the first cause which we imposed not on the second or what we deny unto Nature we impute unto Nativity it selfe that is that in the first and most accomplished piece the Creator affected superfluities or ordained-parts without all use or office Therefore this being a part not precedent but subsequent to Generation Nativity or parturition it cannot as he speakes be well imagined that it appeared in our prototype as in us his off-spring for to imagin so were to regulate Creation to Generation the first act of God unto the second of Nature Pinis Longi inconvenienti◠This we may however affirme in the honour of Nature that whatever augmentation in this or any other part is gained by Art or besides the will and ordinary allowance of Nature it is commonly attended with some inconvenience And there are reasons for it for the magnitude grossenesse and foule and immoderate longitude of the Organ of Generation is a twofold hinderance to fruitfulnesse as Hucherus notes Primùm quidem eo quod muliebre pudendum ut uteri cervix immaniter dilacerantur unde cicatrix relinquitur quae maris semen ante efflucre for as sinat quam id ipsum uterus prolectarit sic foeminam unam urinae incontinentia alterum perpetua Diarrhoca laborantem videre illi contigit divulso ab ejusmodi violento concubitu vesica alvique sphinctere Deinde quia interno uteri osculo graviter impulso percoitum contusoque ita prae dolore Mulier is voluptas interturbatur ut neque proprium semen emittat neque virile admittat excipiatque Est aliud incommodium quod longa mentula secum trahit cum foeminas uterinae suffocationis obnoxias reddat quod ligamenta uteri cervicem nimium in coitu elongando admodum laxet ut apparet ex observatione Spigelii and you see the inconveniencies after Conception that followes upon the ample furniture of these Ginnie Asinegoes Avicen hath taught a way how to magnifie this Part and indeed when it is lesse than is convenient it is an inequality of figure which may be corrected and the Directions conducing thereto are admitted by Montanus into the corrective part of Medicine Montanus Med. pars 1. Hae igitur sunt regulae docentes per methodum magnificare per attractionem multi alimenti ad locum calefaciendo fricando
376 Where women are Circumcised 380 The originall and reason of this invention 381 Where women excise themselves not from a notion of religion but as an ornament ibid. The error sin of this custome 380 How this Circumcision of a woman is done ibid. 381 Men with Members like Asses and where they have a great privy member in great esteem 389 399 Supposed to be nourished by art ibid. The just length and magnitude of the virile member when it is conform'd according to the law of Nature 400 Midwives supposed to be the cause either of the length or shortnes of the virile member according as they knit the navell string 400 401 The Anatomicall reason given thereof with the opinion of Spigelius 400 That whatsoever augmentation of parts is gained by Art besides the will and ordinary allowance of Nature it is commonly attended by some inconveniences 401 The reason of the inconvenience which follow the magnitude and the foule immoderate longitude of the Organ of generation 402 403 Where they use to binde up the Fore-skin of their Privities with a little cord and unty it not but to make water or when they use the act of Generation 381 An expostulation of this unnaturall restraint 382 Men whose Members hang down to their shanks 403 Pygmaei magno veretro 404 Where they adorne their Genitals with pretious stones 383 Where they deprive their secret parts of that which nature intended to make them more secret 383 How this is done and upon what pretence 383 384 Where women never have their flowers 390 By what meanes they prevent their monthly Flux ibid. Their ingratitude to Nature taxed for endeavouring to divert the ordinary course of Nature 391 Nations commended as more respective to nature in this particular 391 Where the women have a most streight and narrow neck of their wombe that they very hardly admit a Man 392 That this happens to them by art not by any benefit of Nature ibid. Where this art is familiarly and commonly practâ—sed 392 393 The miserable and dangerous effects of this artifice 393 Where the virgins use art to distend their Maliebria most capaciously 393 Where they to use sew up the private passage of Nature in their Female child leaving a small passage for their urine 394 â—9 Where the Midwives are wont to breake that membrane as unprofitable which Anatomists call Hymen 384 How they doe it ibid. The prodigious conceit of Nero who must needs have a boy cut and made forsooth a woman 407 The naturall change of women into men confuted by demonstration of Anatomy and Nature vindicated from being guilty of any such practicall Metamorphosis 405 That men to be changed into women is very rare 407 Nations of Hermophrodites who have the generative parts of both sexes 386 390 Hereticks that thought the first man was an Hermaphrodite 386 Their opinion confuted by Scripture ibid. and 387 The kindes of Hermophrodites ibid. That those who in old time were called by the name of Androgyni were reputed for prodigious Monsters 389 Ancient Records of such Hermophrodites ibid. The causes of Hermophrodites 390 S Shoulders HIgh-huff Shoulders where in fashion and naturall 280 Where their shoulders are higher then their Heads ibid. Some concurrent affectation suspected in these Nations ibid. Broad shoulders where in request and indeavoured or imitated by art 281 The inconveniences of broad shoulders and why Platonick Men are not affected by women ibid. Narrow and contracted shoulders where affected 282 With what art they of old affected this composure of the Shoulders ibid. This affectation of drawing the shoulder-points too neer noted and condemned ibid. Where the Noble Virgins Right Shoulders are higher and bigger then the left 283 The cause thereof enquired ibid. Crook-back'd Nations 284 T Teeth WHere red Teeth are accounted a great beauty 217 By what industry they attain unto this Dentall bravery ibid. Where the principall women take a pride in black Teeth 217 218 Black Teeth where a singular beauty 218 219 Where so greatly affected that the blacker they are the more beautifull they are esteemed and worthy of greater honour ibid. How they make them black ibid. Where they polish their black teeth which makes them shew like polish'd Ebony 219 Where they colour their Teeth red and black 217 How they colour them so ibid. Where the men and women in a foolish pride black their Teeth because Dogs Teeth forsooth 〈◊〉 white 219 Where the women guild their Teeth 221 White Teeth the true naturall beauty ibid. They condemned that alter the native candor of the Teeth ibid. Nations commended that are carefull to preserve the naturall beauty of the Teeth ibid. Their artifice whereby they make them look like polished Ivory ibid. Dentifrices commended which preserve the native whitenesse and integrity of the Teeth 222 Where they file their Teeth as sharp as needles ibid. Where they file their Teeth above and below as sharp as needles ibid. This custome condemned as contrary to the law of Nature 222 223 Pretended ends for filing of Teeth 213 An example thereof ibid. Where the women pull out foure of their Teeth two above and two below for a bravery And they that have not these Teeth out are loathsome to them 224 Where they pull out five or six Teeth for a fashionable Elegancy ibid. Where they have a custome to pull out all their Teeth 224 Where there are few to be found that have their native Teeth but they are pulled out and filed downe and artificiall ones set in their place 239 Their ingratitude to Nature noted ibid. The Teeth intended by nature to serve for an ornament and beauty to the mouth 225 The blemish and dammage these Nations sustaine by this foolish fashion ibid. What benefits of Nature they renounce for the mischiefe of so ridiculous a fashion ibid. That wantonly to pull out the Teeth is a transgression against the law of Nature 226 That what these have for a fashion some have decreed for a punishment 228 Where the men and women cover their Teeth with thin plates of gold 231 Who first invented the drawing out of aking Teeth 229 Where the Parents make a feast when their childrens Teeth begin to grow 230 A story of a sound tooth drawn out of anothers mouth inserted in the roome of a rotten tooth drawn out and taking root ibid. An example of one who having a tooth longer then the rest cut to cure the deformity fell into convulsion fits with the reasons of it ibid. Tongue VVHere they have cloven Tongues double from the root thought to be done by art as we slit the tongues of those birds wee would teach to speak 232 Hofmans appprobation of the story and linguall advantages they have who have really a double tongue 233 The strange advantages of this peculiar Art 234 That this art granted it is an audacious improvemeÌ„t of the tongue 234 An Infant born with a double Tongue 233 One with 11 tongues 11 mouths and 22 incompleate lips 234 The tongue of maÌ„ naturally double Anatomically approved by Gallen 233 The erronious perswasion of Midwives that the bridle of the tongue needs cutting in all Infants condemned 235 The ill consequences of this pernicious custome as they are noted by many learned Physitians 235 236 237 Camerarius his opinion how this never enough condemned custome might be introduced into the Midwives practise 236 The exact Symetry of the tongue and the providence of Nature in this particular cleered 237 What this ligament of the tongue is and its use 236 When is the true time of dissection of we suspect some defect 238 A cave at in that operation ibid. FINIS Workes of the Author already published CHIROLOGIA Or The Naturall Language of the Hand CHIRONOMIA Or The Art of Manuall Rhetorick PHILOCOPHUS Or The Deafe and Dumbe mans Friend PATHOMYOTOMIA Or A Dissection of the Muscles of the Affections of the Mind ANTHROPOMETAMORPHOSIS Man transform'd or the Artificiall Changling this now published Workes accomplished by the Authour which he may be induced hereafter to communicate CHIRETHNICALOGIA Or The Nationall expressions of the Hand CEPHALELOGIA Or The Naturall Language of the Head being an Extract of the most noble and Practicall Notions of Physiognomy CEPHALENOMIA Or The Art of Cephalicall Rhetorick VOX CORPORIS Or The Morall Anatomy of the Body The Academy of the Deafe and Dumbe Being the manner of Operation to bring those who are so borne to heare the sound of Words with their Eyes and thence to learn to speake with their Tongues VULTISPEX CRITICUS Seu Phisiognomia Medici GLOSSIATRUS Tractatus de removendis Loquelae impedimentis OTIATRUS Tractatus de removendis Auditionis impedimentis Hactenus Sacro Genii impulsui in intellectualem nostram complexionem operantis obsecundans dum in nova ferebat Animus Opera exegi non supererrogationis sed Augmentis scientiarum supplementalia In quibus de Republica literaria aliquid meruisse videor Faciendi librorum nullus multorum est finis eorundemque lectio defatigationi est carni Deinceps de propria aliena salute consultanda totus incumbam Caetera cateri Humanae Naturae Amasii FINIS
most richly charg'd to sway It downwards and the Dentall roots display Here sticking out sharp naile-like pegs of wood In the upper lip 's a bravery understood What fashion by corrupted fantsie sprung Through a new hole presents the playing tongue The neather Lip 's bor'd through to yield a vent To them who are not with one mouth content At each end of the mouth a bored hole There the rich Gems imposed weight condole Whether by Art's rude force or Natures skip I know not Here we have no upper Lip What scoffers have we here men sore afear'd Of Manhoods ensigne who abhorr a beard Here the luxuriant Chin quite downe is mowne The ranke Mustacho's into Whiskers grown The upper Lip of Hair's now 's dispossest Which nourish't here the honour'd Chin invest Now rooted out by thy malicious care All the cloath'd parts about thy mouth are bare What 's the next fruit of the phantastique itch Thy Teeth must now be red and black as pitch And this forsooth we count a manly sight ' Cause childrens womens and dogs Teeth are white Here thy Teeth are as sharp as Needles fil'd There in a foolish bravery exil'd The Fore-Teeth both above and eke below Have left two empty Sockets in each row Them whose Gums these dare own they ugly think With such refusing for to eate or drink Here for an Elegant conceit they draw Five or six Teeth out of the upper jaw There a rich Mouth with gilded Teeth behold Here Teeth so cover'd with thin plates of gold And fitted to the teeth they seem to be Set in the plates by Arts felicity There filed downe or else extirped quite Th' impoverisht Mouth hath lost its proper might And the Sale pieces naturall repute With others they the empty Gums recruite Of Steel or Iron framed which in stead Of the true teeth the vacant rooms succeed See here which some to a bold Art impute A double Tongue quite cloven from the root Room for Face-moulders who affect the grace Of a square plain broad a smooth platter Face The concave Face by art here inward prest Makes a dogs countenance in great request Here by a strange and ovallizing Gin The comprest Cheeks are drawn out long and thin These wth a torn and bloody face appeare Which is accounted the prime beauty here There Art with her bold stigmatizing hand Doth streaks and markes upon their visage brand The Painter-stainers here assume a place From where descended our Face taking race Their Faces Red and White Blacke Yellow Blew Distain'd all sorts of an imposed hue And here our Gallants al'amode are met With visage full of foule black patches set High huffing-Shoulders here the gallants weare Which 'bove their Heads they in this place do bear Here through pride or the fond Nurses fault One 'bove the other doth it selfe exalt Here their bold fancies so their folly greet The shoulder-points are drawn by force to meet Pap-fashions here the work of Nature wrong Dugs with a loathsome lovelinesse so long And stretched out the streined bags agree To reach the Wast nay sag down to the Knee Through their pierc'd Paps the cruell gallants here A Cane of two spans long doe proudly weare No Maid here 's handsome thought unlesse shee can With her short palmes her streight lac'd body span Thus we most foolishly our life invade For to advance the Body-makers trade Painted with lists here naked arms behold Branded and pounc'd with colours manifold Rich tinctur'd Red Blacke Tawny Yellow White All badges of the gallants gay delight Here Hands are colour'd There long Nailes define Idle Gentilitie's assured signe Here crossing Nature cut and jagged round The Nailes are with injurious angles crown'd Yard-bals or Bels hung 'twixt the flesh and skin Here to the Paphian Rites do ring all in There the Prepuce is button'd up Here now A huge enormous Ring secures a vow There Circumcision shames th' uncovered Nut Which here with cords bound up is over-shut There the forc'd Genitals trust up are hid Within the Body Here Castrations bid Eunuehs in their degraded manhood thrive Here women Eunuches at that Mart arrive There by erronious wit a trick devis'd Women are as an ornament excis'd Here by a fond devise the Virgins Thighes And Calfes unto a swelling greatnesse rise There they use art to make the Calfe ascend And here the fashion makes it downward tend Naked no Breeches here they seem to lack Their colour'd thighs Trous-like being dy'd black About their Legs strange lists they there doe make Pricking the same with needles then they take Indeliable tincture which rub'd in The Gallants doe account the bravest gin The greatest ornament which here we meet Is for the women to have little Feet Which from their Infancy are kept so small They goe but badly and halfe seem to fall Here colour'd Red the Gallants feet appear Which on their Feet's true nailes some onely smear Thus Capa peia is that Gallant great Horrid Transformed selfe-made Man Compleat Admitted for to see each ranged file Can indignation give you leave to smile To his honoured Friend Thomas Diconson Esquire Friend THe Heroique Disease of Writing hath as you well know long since seized on me this being the Fifth Publique Paroxisme I have had thereof It hath been ever the humour of my Genius to put me upon untrodden Pathes and to make up aggregate Bodies of very scarce and wide dispersed Notions which had been more easie for the Faculty of my weak Body had I had a Signality of Spirit to summon Democriticall Atomes to conglobate into an intellectuall Forme or that Mercury had been so propitious a Lord of the Ascendent in my Nativity as he was in Amphion's and bestowed some Orpharion upon me with whose sound I might have attracted Notions and made them come dancing to the Construction of a Book What I here present you with is an Enditement framed against most of the Nations under the Sun whereby they are arraigned at the Tribunall of Nature as guilty of High-treason in Abasing Counterfeiting Defacing and Clipping her Coine instampt with her Image and Superscription on the Body of Man The matter of Fact is proved by sufficient Witnesses of credible Historians that it will not be an easie thing for them to traverse the Inditement The Prosecution of such an Action wherein the honour and reputation of the great Architect man's Protoplastes is so much concern'd had been I humbly confess more fit for one who had deserved to be Atturney Generall to Nature then for me the meanest Solicitor in her Court. When you have well viewed the Scenes and Devillish shapes of this Practicall Metamorphosis and scan'd them in your serious thoughts you will wonder at their audacious phant'sies who seeme to hold Specificall deformities or that any part can seeme unhandsome in their Eyes which hath appeared good and beautifull unto their Maker And I doubt not but you will soone discerne the propense malice of Satan in it tempting
Face Bulwer hath laid but gives Thee thy due grace Thou here art cleer'd of foul Deformities Free in intent and when such Acts arise They 're Rapes not Births and the enforced Mother Could wish such brats that the sham'd Womb would smother Shee in a perfect Rule and constant Course Works her effects alike unlesse the source Of her known streame be let Then 't is not Shee But th' Intervener makes monstrosity Look where we will as if not of parts Four The World consisted Africa's all o're Or if Europa doe retaine her name 'T is in Europa's beastly lust and shame We are not made but We turne Monsters This Is a spontaneous Metamorphosis Which also was called Cham. The World is Topsie Turvy turn'd Chim-Cham Ere since Disguised Noah and Curst Ham Without Inchantments or Romances food Each man 's a Quixot and o th' errant brood We first transforme our fancies then our Bodies And aâ—e most sober and most vigilant Noddies All paines we take to spoile by pride or Mirth The Gaudeant Bene Nati of our Birth Which if Dame Nature perfects Dame Midnight O're seen in sack and sugar confounds quite Lucina's Baggage Nurses and old Wives Make Heads and Noses and the shape Contrives Of many squint-ey'd crook-back cophead child Which by Dame Nature was exactly fil'd What Eagles Beakes have some and Nose so Roman It proves temptation to Divining Woman Others are Ape-nos'd which old Pug the Nurse Intending an amendment did make worse From such abuse dilated eyes and eares Almost to every head you meet appeares Eares of so huge a compasse and broad eyes As men were swine and turn'd to Owlebies Sometimes with lacings and with swaiths too strait For want of space we have a Dandi-prat Sr Jefferies babie dilling Petite A Peccadillo of Barnabies night Things so pucill and small the statute wise Exempts from Coupling being under size To some such store of stuff their flowing fires Give as they had discharg'd Sol's gen'rous Fires So scutt'ring and diffusive the brave heat The spreading mother seems not to be great With Child but Man and the first houre gives joy Not to an Infant but a bully-boy I have not Time nor dare I injure so In a preventing Catalogue to show What our foule vices of Intemperance Besides the sea-skip vanities of France As well as the diseases have undone In Natures Dimocke read what He hath wonne Whom as the Wonder of our age we shew With the just Trumpet of his praises due E. G.Ac Oxon. A.M. Inaudita de infanda Gentium Deformitate apud sui Vindicem Statorem Naturae Querela Hecatonsticha IN nova fert animus mutatas plangere formas Corpora Dii vortant nam vos formastis illas Aspicio diris variatum vultibus Orbem Caeperit ut vultus monstrosas sumere formas Transire in furias docile est Genus omne profanum Quae Regio in terris nostri non plena doloris Spectat quos omnes spatiosi Machina mundi Optima Naturam quamvis Dux spernere gaudent Vultus discruciant hominum per mille figuras Sese transformant stulti in miracula faeda Larvas ante ferunt in amaenas vultibus almis Mentiri varios discunt nunc Ora colores Artibus infandis Artus spoliâre decoros Ars inimica mihi quae debuit esse fidelis Nobile faedatur Puloherrima Machina corpus Corpus inane animae turpis sine pectore truncus Aspectu faeda est facies sunt turpia membra Vultus terribilis rapidarum more ferarum Ignoti nova forma viri miserandaque cultu Turpior est illo quem pugno fudit Achilles Thersites verus qui formosissimus andit Miras morbiserae vires advertite formae Singula gens proprias gaudent assumere formas Singula gens proprios plorunt asciscere morbos Queîs situs atque figura ferox sua nomina donant Iratae Nemesis digni sunt solvere paenas Horrida terribiles miscent spectâola Novercae His favet atque fovet Nutrix Materque Paterque Crudelis Mater magis aâ— Pater improbus ille Improbus ille Pater crudelis tu quoque Mater Diva potens uteri pulchras miseresce puellas Paenas atque luant faedas qui talia predunt Crimina Naturam contra contraque decorum At vos auxilium membris qui quaeritis agris Deforme hoc vitium vestrum quis sustinet ultra Est Phaebo indignus Clariis versatur in hortis Rectiùs has miseras jam non qui pergere suadet Ut saltem in nostra renovetis corpora terra Discite jam formas moniti instaurare priores Caetera rerum Opisex animalia finxit at illa Antiquas retinent venerato numine formas Corpora vos fugitis dulcia linquitis ora Quis furor O Gentes quae tanta insania pungit Vultibus invisis vestrum mutare nitorem Mens furiis agitata fuit crudelis illinc Turpe est artis opus pulchri defloruit oris Gratia tam nitidae fastigia splendida frontis Barbaria terribilis rabiosa immunda profana Infausta immanis ridenda superbia sperrit Omnia quo corpus mutaret ora manusque Hosne mihi fructus an hunc pietatis honorem Curarumque refers quod aduncae vulnera formae Tam monstrosa fero totoque exterreor orbe Hei mihi qualis erat quantum mutatus ab illo Corpore praestanti Quae causa indigna serenos Faedavit vultus Tua turbida terret imago Quam speciosa prior Quin cur haec vulnera cerno Horresco aspiciens nullasque incorpore partes Noscere quas possum unumque est omnia vulnus Monstrum horrendum ingens cui quot sunt corpore membrae Horrida tot spectra insurgunt mirabile visu Induerint Erebi vultus atque ora Sororum Parr furias referunt Hic faedum Protea fingit Os humeros Diti similem Namque haud tibi vultus Mortalis sed Tartareus sic laesa figura est Obstupet umbrarum Dominus Perterritus Orcus Plutonis tollunt Equites peditesque Chachinnos Monstra hominum rident Stygios superantia visuâ— Plebs stupet informis cuput exitale Medusae Et molem miratur hians canis ere trifauci Tum Phlegetontiacaeque ulularunt gurgite Dirae Tantarum irarum causas risusque pereunis Ipsis Daemonibus dedit haec mutatio nigra Dii tibi dent veniam tu qui nova pectora possis Lumine vestita Est tua maxima parvula culpa His collata Erebo diguis nocte profunda O utinam possem populos reparare paternis Vultibus generis lapsi sarcire ruinas Saepe ego quâ gentis damnum miserabile nostrae Arte sit exploro frustra tentare pigebat Quippe ego vix primos servavi pectore vultus Pluria foedarunt quam quae comprendere verbis In promptu mihi sit Recto tamen ordine ductus Restituit noster solerti indagine Vindex Hic labor est Bulwere tuus sit gloria faelix Tu revocas vultus in Apollinis arte priores
Senibus mandibulam Scipionis loco esse Some wiler than others in Tooth-Rites In reference unto which Physiognomers pronounce such to be short lived who have few Teeth for such prepare ill whence the first concoction hurt the second is necessarily impaired Behold here the folly and madnesse of these Nations who impoverish their mouths to enrich their fancies and discard so good servants out of the Mill of life which should grinde the Grist for the better maintenance and nourishment of the Body entertaining a defect for a fashion and that which some have decreed for a punishment and justly accounted a great Blemish For Purchas Pilgr 2. lib. 9. The Kings of Queteve were wont anciently to drinke poyson at the losse of their fore-teeth saying that a King ought to have no defect Yet a late King proclaimed it through his Kingdome that he had lost one of his fore-teeth which was fallen out that they might not be ignorant when they see him want it and would not do so but wait his naturall death holding his life necessary for to conserve his estate against his enemies and so left that patterne to Posterity Idem Pilgr 4. lib. 7. The people of the Province of Huancavilca who had killed those Masters which his Father Tupac Inca Yunangiu had sent to instruct them the Inca using his naturall clemency and to make good his Title Huacchacuijac the Benefactor of the poore he so far remitted this fault-deserving death that each Captaine and Chiefe should lose two teeth in the upper Jaw and as many in the lower both they and their descendents in memory of not satisfying their promise made to his Father whereupon the whole Nation would needs participate both men and women Artificiall Teeth prefer'd before the naturall in that Tooth-losse and did likewise use this Tooth-rite to their Sons and Daughters as if it had been a favour So that what was intended for punishment grew thereupon to be a fashion And this I suppose to be the originall of the Custome or Tooth-rite mentioned before in this Scene of the Guancavilcae in Peru although it be variously reported and it may be a little mistaken In Java Island there are few to be found that have their native Teeth For the most of them Schenckius li. observat de Dentibus both men and women either cause them to be pulled out or filed down with a File and others to be set in their place of Gold or Silver Steele or Iron made to succeed in their rooms Had these men such a fountaine as there is in Persia which makes their Teeth fall out that drinke of it they would be well contented which since they have not Tooth-drawers and Tooth-setting Chirurgions would have a good Trade there where men and women are so ungratefull and villanously bent against the goodnesse of Nature as to prefer Artificiall Teeth before the Naturall Aesculapius was the first who in case of necessity and paine invented the drawing out of aking Teeth and therefore had a leaden Daviser consecrated unto him But these people out of wantonnesse and a foolish bravery put themselves to losse and paine the Teeth especially the Eye-Teeth being bred with paine and not pulled out without paine and danger And if they cut or file them down they expose themselves to as great a mischiefe by reason of that hollow part of the Teeth which is sensible into which the soft Nerves enter as it fared with a certaine Monke at Patavia Renovation of Teeth who when he came to have a tooth which was longer than the rest cut to cure the deformity it brought fell straight way into a convulsion and Epilepticall fits and in the part of the Tooth cut off there appeared the footsteps of a Nerve more thankfull to Nature and more retentive of her benefits are they of Fez where when a Child begins to have his Teeth grow his Parents make a feast for other Children and they terme this feast Dentilla which is a proper Latin word And when rotten Teeth are drawn out it is convenient to thinke of some way of artificiall reparation Paraeus heard it reported by a credible person that he saw a Lady of the prime Nobility who instead of a rotten Tooth she drew made a sound Tooth drawn from one her waiting maid at the same time to be substituted and inserted which Tooth in processe of time as it were taking root grew so firme as that she could chaw upon it as upon any of the rest but he had this but upon heresay And the Teeth are so necessary to the welfare of the body of man that Nature to some especiall Favorites hath afforded a renovation of Teeth in their old age nay even of their very Grinders very many examples of which indulgency you may find in Schenckius Lord Bacon and Aldrovandus and of the Countess of Desmond it is reported that she did dentire twice or thrice casting her old Teeth and others comming in their place which is one instance that gives some likelihood of that great designe of restoring Teeth in age which yet hath not been known to have been provoked by Art Lord Bacons Nat. Hist Cent 8. yet my Lord Bacon makes a Quere whether children may not have some wash or something to make their Teeth better and stronger Corall is in use as an help to the Teeth of Children Golden Teeth In the Province of Cardandam under the great Can Tarters Jurisdiction the men and women cover their Teeth with thin Plates of Gold which they so fit unto them that the Teeth themselves seeme as it were to be set in Plate Had Nature furnished these Nations with a set of such golden Teeth as the Silesian Boy had which answered the Touch and so exercised the wits of the Physicians of that Age she had fitted their Fancies to a haire and had prevented this artificiall endeavour though indeed that proved but a trick of Art To be born with Teeth or in extreame old age to have Teeth renew againe of both which there are many examples are rather miracles in Nature than Monstrosities but the redundant force of Nature is more remarkable in those who have had a double row of Teeth Val. Max. lib. 1. cap. 6. Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 11. cap. 38. Colsius lib. 4. cap. 3. G. Bauhin de observ propriis Colum. lib. 1. Anat. cap. 10. Plin. li. 7. c. 16. Val. Max li. 1. de mirac ca. 8. Solin cap. 9. Fulg. lib. 1. c. 6. Plut. in Pyrrhe as Direpsima the Daughter of Mithridates had Timarchus the Son of Mestor Cyprius and a boy of Lutesia who had all a double course of Teeth Jon Chius attributes to Hercules a trebble set of Teeth which is not so wonderfull since Columbus reports of a Boy of his called Phoebus whose mouth was so stored Some also have had one intire whole bone that tooke up all the Gumbe instead of a row of distinct
might be easily moved every way for unlesse that were there would be much of the voice lost in dearticulation and as Casserius notes it restraines the Tongue from being drawn backe beyond measure by the over-streining of the anterior Muscles to which it is a helper and it hinders the Tongue from being put forth too monstrously and indecently and from being too exorbitantly led to any one side But that it should alwaies need the Midwives naile or great or the Chirurgeons Pen-knife lest it should prove an impediment to sucking or to future speech and without which enlargement it could not be freely roll'd or mov'd every way is a most dangerous conceit Certainly these Midwives as women are great friends to loquacity joine in opinion with these Authors who therein playing the Rhetoricians opine that Nature imposed this bridle upon man lest he should prove too talkative which morall use holds not for there are some as Kypler notes that are too talkative who have this Bridle short enough and there are some not so full of prattle although this bond be loose enough to give them scope for Loquacity or Taciturnity depends upon a higher principle and therefore their blind zeale in this businesse is the more reprovable Camerarius thinks that this never-enough condemned custome grounded hereupon might possibly be introduced into the Midwives practice A Caution for cutting from the suggestion of some Physitians who pretended this bond in all Infants doth so strictly tye the Tongue to its root insomuch as without resection of the same speech would become lame and imperfect and thereupon without any necessity the Midwives in many Nations began to dilacerate and breake it indifferently in all Infants But since neither Parrots nor Pies stand in need of any disruption of this Bond to utter their voice such as it is it would seeme a wonder if Sagacious Nature should faulter only in the forming of that part which was ordained to serve speech proper to Mankind Neither without reason did Galen even in this particular admire the providence of Nature that had in such exact Symetry ordered the Tongue that it was neither too short nor too long for the Offices it was to performe But let us distinguish and grant that it sometimes so fals out that even as in other parts of the Body so also in this little Bond Nature failes and offends as it were in excesse upon which occasion section is not unprofitable but it is to be esteemed necessary But that Nature the tender mother of all things doth alwaies in all Children commit this errour the best of the Learned constantly deny some of them witnessing as before that by omitting that Ruption or rather more truly Corruption according to their advice the Children have notwithstanding spoke very perfectly and on the contrary by the same foolish institution of Midwives others to have died inflamation being raised by the rude hand of unskilfull women which hath caused pain and hindred their sucking therefore when we suspect either a slownesse or depravation of the Tongue we ought to defer the dissection untill the appointed time of speech Chirurgions not Midwives worke for then this may more commodiously be done by a skilfull Chirurgion who may do it with Caution lest when he cut this little Corà he do not also cut the hard Nerves of motion to wit the seventh Conjugation placed in the lower part of the Tongue SCENE XV. Platter Faces where affected Face-moulders Face-takers Stigmatizers and Painters THe Chiribichensian women use to boulster the Necks of their Infants with two pillowes the one before Pet. Martyr Decad. 8. the other behind and bind them hard even untill their Eyes start for a smooth plaine Face pleaseth them Platter-faces being there in great request Lindscot lib. 1. cap. 20. In Java Major they have flat Faces and broad thick Cheekes Scaliger de subtil ad Cardan exerc 167. Leo hist de Africa l. 7. Scaliger saith that in the Island Java they have very broad Faces as likewise the Circassians In the Region of Zanfara they have extreame black broad visages Discovery of Norembega The Inhabitants of Norembega are disfigured in nothing saving that they have somewhat broad Visages and yet not all of them Sir John Mandevils Travels In an Island neare the great Island Dodyn there are men that have flat Faces without Noses and without Eyes but they have two small round holes instead of Eyes and they have flat mouths without Lips And in that Isle are men also that have their Faces all flat without Eyes without Mouth and without Nose but they have their Eyes and their Mouth behind on their shoulders These Faces cannot be commensurate because the Members thereof are forced out of their naturall proportion and so necessarily exclude that naturall beauty which is wont chiefly to be found in the Face For so much as it is from the middle of the brows to the end of the Nose so much it ought to be from the end of the Nose to the Chin and the same space should fall from the middle of the Brows to the exterior angle of the Eye as fals from the aforesaid Angle to the beginning of the Eare. The latitude of the Forehead the length of the Nose and the magnitude of the Mouth should be the same also the semicircle of the Eye and of the Cheekes the same as the altitude of the extremity of the Nose ought to be halfe as much as the Longitude of it which proportion is most notoriously demolished in these Platter-Faces Platter faces condemned Insomuch as considering these strange attempts made upon the naturall endowments of the Face one would thinke that some men felt within themselves an instinct of opposing Nature and that they tooke more delight to overcome than to follow her the delight would be lesse the profit greater if they did it for profit rather than pleasure they cannot but know that their happinesse doth consist in the overcoming of these unreasonable and phantasticall affectations but equivocating therein and either for want of understanding or through a wilfull misunderstanding whereas they should strive against their own inward they oppose their outward Nature Thus man transported with vaine imaginations where he finds Hils he sets himselfe to make Plaines where Plaines he raiseth Hils in pleasant places he seekes horrid ones and brings pleasantnesse into places of horrour and shamefull obscurity he seconds that which he ought to withstand and that which he should follow he opposes and when he thinkes he triumphs over his subdued and depraved body his own corrupt Nature triumphs over him This is a stratagem of the Enemy of our Nature to set us at odds with our naturall endowments and that he may remaine quiet within he causeth us to strive abroad like to a cunning politique Tyrant who having a valiant and fierce Subject within his City by whom he feares to have violence or opposition offered him
it over with inke and the juyce of an herb What strange kind of Butchery do these Nations exercise Stigmatizers and what needlesse paine they put themselves unto to maintaine their cruell bravery Nay which is yet stranger they seeme to love this unnaturall and bloudy Gallantry so well that they hate their own flesh and bloud whereof they freely sacrifice to their fantasticall imaginations This in the Poets stile is to nullifie a Face And to speake in the spirit of old BEN What is the cause They think sure in disgrace Of Beauty so to nullifie a Face That Heaven should make no more or should amiss Make all hereafter when th 'ave ruin'd this Thus stigmatiz'd you need not doubt I tro Whether their Faces be their own or no. Thus the more sacred and honest part of the Body is prophaned by their wicked inventions Can either Gentility or Christianity be forgiven such an errour surely no. This abominable folly and madnesse was reproved in the Hebrews who as these do in pride and bravery so they did scotch their Faces in time of mourning which was usuall among them of great antiquity by reason whereof the same was forbidden them by the Law of God in Leviticus Jer. 41.2 3. Lev. 19.5 You shall not cut your flesh for the Dead nor make any marke of a print upon you I am the Lord. Deut. 14.1 And againe in Deutrinomy You are the children of the Lord your God you shall not cut your selves Which was also forbidden by the Romans in the Laws of the twelve Tables Pet. Mart. Decad. 3. They in the Golden Region of Coiba-Dites are more excusable than these mad and cruell Gallants Painter-stainers for they spare their own flesh and marke their slaves in the flesh after a strange manner making holes in their Faces and sprinkling a powder thereon they moisten the pounced place with a certaine black or red juyce whose substance is of such tenacity and claminesse that it will never weare away Grimston of their manners The Arabian women before they go unto their husbands either on the marriage day or any other time to lye with them paint their Faces Breasts Armes and Hands with a certaine azured colour thinking that they are very hansome after this manner and they hold this Custome from the Arabians which first entred into Africk and these learned it from the Africans yet at this day the town of Barbery inhabited by them of the Country do not imitate this custome but their wives love to maintaine their naturall Complexion It is true that they have sometimes a certaine black painting made of the smoake of Galls and Saffron with the which they make little spots upon their Cheekes and they paint their Eyebrows of a Triangular forme and they lay some upon their Chin which resembles an Olive leafe And this being commended by the Arabian Poets in their amorous Songs there is not any African of great note but will carry it in a great bravery But you must understand that these women dare not weare this painting above two or three daies nor shew themselves before their Kinsmen in this equipage for that it favours something of a whore They only give the sight and content thereof unto their husbands to incite them to love Women-Painters for that these women desire the sport much and they think that their beauty receives a great grace by this painting In Leo's description of Africa the Relation runs thus Their Damsels that are unmarried do usually paint their Faces Breasts Armes Hands and Fingers with a kind of counterfeit colour which is accounted a most decent custome among them But this Fashion was first brought in by those Arabians which were called Africans what time they began first of all to inhabit that Region for before then they never used any false or glosing colours The women of Barbary use not this fond kind of painting but contenting themselves only with their naturall hue they regard not such fained ornaments howbeit sometimes they will temper a certaine colour with Hens dung and Saffron wherewithall they paint a little round spot in the balls of their Cheekes about the breadth of a French Crown likewise between their Eye-brows they make a Triangle and paint upon their Chins a patch like unto an Olive leafe Some of them also do paint their Eyebrows and this Custome is very highly esteemed of by the Arabian Poets and Gentlemen of that Country Howbeit they will not use these Phantasticall ornaments above two or three daies together all which time they will not be seen to any of their friends except it be their Husbands and Children for these paintings seeme to be great allurements to lust whereby the said women thinke themselves more trim and beautifull Men painted The Author of the Treasury of Times Grimston of their manners In Fez the women use to deck and adorne the Bride by trimming her hair rubbing her Cheeks and painting them red and her hands and feet black with a certaine tincture which continueth but a while Grimston of the estate of the Turk in Africa They that live in the Province of Bugia in Africk have an ancient custome to paint a black Crosse upon their Jaw-bones Grimst of the estate of China Magin Geograph Lord Bacon Nat. Hist Cent. 8. Exper. 739. The women in China use painting and ointments And it is practized by the men for the Chineses as my Lord Bacon notes who are of an ill complexion being olivaster paint their Cheeks scarlet especially their King and Grandees Grimston of their manners Jo. Bohem. l. 2. de rit gent. The ancient Scythian women rubbed their naked bodies against some sharpe and rough stone having then powred water upon them and their flesh being swoln by this meanes they rubbed their bodies with the wood of Cypress Cedar and Incense they did also use certaine ointments for the Face made of the like Drugs by means whereof they smell sweet then having the day following taken away these Plaisters they seemed more beautifull and pleasing In Norembega all of them as well men as women paint their Faces Grimston of their manners Magin Geogra Americae Purch Pilgr 1. lib. 4. Lindscot li. 2. The naturall Inhabitants of Jucata paint their Faces and Bodies black The Native Socotorans paint their Faces with yellow and black spots loathsome to behold The Brasilean women paint their Faces with all kind of Colours which their Neighbours and other women do for them Face-stainers In the middle of their Cheekes they make a round circle drawing lines from it of divers colours untill their Faces be full not leaving so much undone as their Eye-lids The Virginian women adorne themselves with paintings some have their Face Breasts Hands Capt. Smiths Hist of Virginia and Legs cunningly embroidered with divers workes as Beasts Serpents artificially wrought into their flesh with black spots their Heads and Shoulders are
painted red with the root Pocone brayed to powder mixed with oyle which Scarlet-like colour makes an exceeding handsome shew and is used by the Kings Concubines this they hold in Summer to preserve them from the heat and in Winter from the cold Many other formes of painting they use but he is the most Gallant that is the most monstrous to behold Their Children of whom they are easily delivered and yet love them dearely to make them hardy in the coldest mornings they make them wash in the Rivers and by painting and ointments so tann their skins that after a yeare or two no weather will hurt them when they enter into battell they paint and disguise themselves in the fiercest manner they can devise After their ordinary burials are ended the women having painted all their Faces with black coale and oile do sit 24 houres in their houses mourning and lamenting by turnes with such yelling and howling as may expresse their great passions the Faces of all their Priests are painted as ugly as they can devise Sometimes the men appeare halfe black and halfe red Face-grimers but all their Eyes painted white and some red stroakes like Mustachoes along their Cheeks Some of them paint their Eyes red having white stroakes over their black Faces so that they look more like devils than men Captaine Smith about Onawniament encountred with Ambushcadoes of such Savages so strangely painted grimed and disguised shouting yelling and crying as so many spirits from Hell could not have shewed more terrible Johan Bohem. de moribus gen lib. 3. Somewhat allyed to this barbarous way of Disguise is the Custome of the Germans who are said once a yeare to run mad covering their Faces with Vizards belying their Sex and Age some of them willing rather to represent Satyrs or Divels paint themselves with Vermilion or Inke deforming themselves with such nefarious habits others running naked play the Lupercalls from whom my Author thinks this annuall Custome of raving was first derived who naked and with their faces defiled in bloud wandring through the City were wont to strike every one they met with thongs of leather The Author of the Description of Nova Francia lib. 2. The Souriquois do paint their Faces all with black which maketh them seeme very hideous but this is their mourning Visage Ramutius narration of Nova Francia The women of New France about the Port of the holy Crosse for the death of their Husbands weare a certaine black weed all the daies of their life besmearing all their Faces with coale dust and grease mingled together almost halfe a quarter of an Intch thick and by that they are known to be Widdows Painting being Universall Face-daubers and without exception among the West Indians The Author of the Description of Nova Francia lib. â— for if any of them maketh Love he shall be painted with red or blue colour and his Mistris also If they be glad at any thing they will do the like generally which is their expression of jolly bravery But when they are sad or plot some Treason then they overcast all their Face with black and are hideously deformed In Persia the womens pale colour is made sanguine by adulterate complexion Herberts Travels and their round cheeks are fat and painted The common womens cheeks are of a delicate dye but Art not Nature causeth it The Grecian women for the most part Sandys Travels lib. 1. are brown of complexion but exceedingly well favoured they cover not their Faces the Virgins excepted unlesse it be with painting using all the supplement of a sophisticated beauty And not without cause for when they grow old the most grow contemptible being put to the drudgery of the house and many times to wait on their Children The Spanish women when they are married Howel Epist Famil they have a priviledge to weare high Shooes and to paint which is generally practised there and the Queen useth it her selfe which brings on a great decay in the naturall Face For it is observed that women in England look as youthfull at fifty as some there at twenty five This saith Munster Munst Cosm lib. 2. is to be reproved in your Spanish women that they now and then deforme their face with washes of Vermilion Ceruse because they have lesse native colour than your French women Artificial Faire Ones and indeed other nations learnt from them the use of Spanish paper The Ladies of Italy not to speake of the Curtezans to seeme fairer than the rest take a pride to besmeare and paint themselves A Geographer speaking of Venice saith that it is thought no one City againe is able to compare with that City for the number of gorgeous Dames as for their beauty of face though they be faire indeed I would not willingly commend them because there is in a manner none old or young unpainted It is observed that the Roman Dames had infinite little boxes filled with loathsome trash of sundry kind of colours and compositions for the hiding of their deformities the very sight and smell whereof was able to turne a mans stomack Ovid. de medic fac Pixides invenies rerum mille colores Non semel hinc stomacho nausea facta meo And for the face used so much slibber-sauce such daubing and painting that a man could not well tell facies dicatur an ulcus May it a Face or a Botch be call'd Johan Bohem. de moribus gen lib. 3. The ancient English stained their Faces with Woad which is of a blew or sky colour that they might appeare more horrid to their enemies in fight Our English Ladies who seeme to have borrowed some of their Cosmeticall conceits from Barbarous Nations Spotted Faces affected are seldome known to be contented with a Face of Gods making for they are either adding detracting or altering continually having many Fucusses in readinesse for the same purpose Sometimes they think they have too much colour then they use Art to make them look pale and faire Now they have too little colour then Spanish paper Red Leather or other Cosmeticall Rubriques must be had Yet for all this it may be the skins of their Faces do not please them off they go with Mercury water and so they remaine like peeld Ewes untill their Faces have recovered a new Epidermis This is as odious and as senselesse an affectation as ever was used by any barbarous Nation in the World And I doubt our Ladies that use them are not well advised of the effect they worke for these spots in Faire Faces advantage not beauty as they suppose Black patches no advantage to Beauty because contraries compared and placed neare one another shew their lustre more plainely but because it gives envy satisfaction which takes pleasure in defects or by reason it takes away that astonishment which instead of delighting confounds not that Imperfection can make perfect or that the defect
have seen men with Necks of a Cubit long the other parts of their body being proportionable thereunto In Eripia as some write or according to Lycosthenes in the extreame part of Siricana or as it pleaseth others in some of the Valleys of Tartaria there harbours a Nation of so long a Neck that it wholly resembles the neck of a Crane afterwards in the top of the Neck there is a ferine Face Long gangrell necks inconvâ—nient with the Eyes and Nostrils of a man as also with a bill adorned with Gils like a Cock Aldrovandus indeed saies it will more availe one to read than believe this Relation yet he denies not but there are halfe-men with a long Neck and a ferine Face do live in those Regions their women being not so deformed as the men and they are said to be very seldome seen This Nation is carried with great force against their Enemies and chiefly against the Tartars Aldrovandus hath exhibited the Effigies of these Gangrell-Neck'd men to be considered of by his Readers Aldrov monst Hist lib. 1. which puts me in mind of that ridiculous wish of Philoxones that grumbled at Nature for the shortnesse of his Neck who would have had the Neck of a Crane that thereby he might have taken more pleasure in his meat or as some thinke to obtaine advantage in singing or warbling and dividing the notes in Musick which Cavill of Philoxones against Nature for not having respect unto the Taste or singing in the contrivance of his Neck is absurd and in the very foundation of the fancy to be condemned D. Brown Pâ—â—udodoxia Epid. lib. 7. cap. 14. as it is ingeniously observed by the late Enquirer into vulgar errours And if he had obtained this foolish request yet the justnesse of Nature could not have suffered him to have been a gainer by the bargaine for a long gangrell neck which would have made the head look as set upon a pole would by such an elongation caused a very inconvenient distance between the braine and the heart but the Epicure surely had a more reaching conceit Nations that have no Neck knowing that they are more greedy of meat and have better stomacks who have a greater space from the mouth to the paunch They that inhabit those Alpes which divide France from Italy their throats are encreased to that bulke and largenesse that both in men and women those gutturall bottles hang down even to their Navels and they can cast them over their shoulders and this is not commonly seen in the Allobroges Carinthians Syrians and Nations living about the Alpes but it is also familiar to some places of Spaine Fabricius ab Aqua pend Fabricius saith that such Tumours are frequent among the Bergomensians where the men and women all for the most part have such great pendent bags in the fore-part of their Throats Joan. Stumpf. lib. Chr. 10. cap. 20. Among the Rucantians a people of Helvetia now called Rhaeti the Inhabitants especially about the Town Ciceres are troubled with the same gutturall deformity M. Pol. lib. 1. cap. 31. Neither doth this happen only in Europe but also in Asia for the men there have such great wallets of flesh after a wonderfull manner hanging at their throats But in Syria the women have their throats so protended that they cast it behind their back as it were a Sack or Wallet Ortel in Illyrico lest it should hinder their Infants when they suck This swelling or Throat-Dropsie The cause of swelling throats is occasioned by the drinking of crude waters of dissolved Snow as most Authors suppose which although it be a reason not to be rejected Platerus yet Platerus to this Cause addes the Seed and the Facultie Formatrix in the wombe where they are familiar to any place and that they are rather propagated from the Parents in their Children then that they happen by reason of any meat or drinke or any other peculiar cause which Sennertus thinkes doth not seldome fall out so indeed yet the first cause seemes valid because it is observed that they that come well into any such places after they have abode there a while they contract such a water between the skin and rough Artery which is called by Physitians Bronchocele and Bocium à Bocii ventricosi poculi similitudine from the similitude of a great-bellied drinking Cup. Shoulders higher than the Head SCENE XVII Humerall or Shoulder-Affectations Lycost Append Chron. prodig IN the Island Taprobana High huff-Shoulders are in Fashion and Naturall Whether these Nations are guilty or not of using Art to this purpose I shall not conclude although I halfe suspect some concurrent affectations My apprehension of this businesse I have already exprest in the History of the Acephali which appeare to be the same Nation In all the parts of Tartaria the men are broad-shouldered which being Nationall is held there in good repute And if it were not at first affected and introduced among them by Art Broad shoulders where affected yet in other Countries where it is noted to be extremely affected there hath been some endeavour used to that intent and where that hath failed they have had recourse to outward supplements Concerning the Italians Cresol vacat Autumn Cresollius hath informed us of their ridiculous affectation in this kind Behold saith he what the improvident curiosity of men hath thought on who that they might seeme Plato's that is broad-shouldred full square and somewhat strong and mighty men they bumbast their Doublets and after a childish or rather womanish manner adhibent Analectides use little Bolsters or Pillows for to seeme more fat and comly bolstring so up their prominent shoulders as little women were wont to do of old as Ovid describes the Custome Conveniunt tenues scapulis Analectides altis Angustum circa fascia pectus erat Well could these men be Masters of their wish yet it is a question whether it would please their Mistrisses For the women of other Countries and among us are not so well affected to broad shoulders for it is worth the noting what women by long use have observed to wit that men that have broad shoulders for the most part get great Children Hence the Mother-in-Law of Forestus a fruitfull woman would not match her Daughters to Platonique men by reason she feared least in their Delivery they should be endangered by reason of the greatnesse of the Child which Forestus had often seene to happen the broad shoulders dangerously sticking in the Birth Narrow shoulders affected the cause whereof Riolanus thinks to be difficult whence you may see what worke they make for the women who endeavour by Art to purchase thick and broad shoulders Franciscus Hernandus in his Manuscript makes report of certaine Nations in India who are all buncht-backt crooked and crump-shouldered Arme-gallanry SCENE XVIII Strange Inventions of certain Nations in ordering their Armes Hands and Nailes The
Historia the Portugals sailing in the mid way to Calecut where the Dog-star cannot be seene they found in a certaine Island men provided with two Armes and as many Hands on the right side with Asses Eares and a Mans Face who run like Harts And we find it recorded in the Acts of Alexander the Great Idem King of Macedon that in India there were men endowed with six Armes and as many Hands who all their life time incur no sicknesse which was believed to be another species of men C. Valerius M. Herennius Consuls Jul. obsequâ—ns a maid brought forth a Boy with one hand Salmuthus speakes of a Boy who altogether wanted his Left hand Salm. obser Cent. 1. Obs 15. in place whereof he obtained the fore-foot of a Cat a miserable Spectacle P. Africanus and Laelius Consuls Idem at Amiternum there was a Boy borne with one hand and three feet In Tartaria there is found a Nation that have but one Arme and one Leg and Foot of whom you may heare more in the three and twentieth Scene Men without Armes Many also have appeared without Armes And even now while this Impression of mans Transformation was working off there was publiquely to be seene a young man borne at Hagbourne within foure miles of Abbington whose name is Iohn Simons born without Armes Hands Thighs or Knees who had no joint in his Knees but one continued bone from his Hip unto his Foot not in height above three quarters of an Ell from head to foot and yet from the wast upward as proportionable a body as any ordinary man wanting his Armes and from the waste downward not a full quarter of a yard in the Twist He is about twenty yeares of Age he writeth with his mouth he threads a Needle with his mouth he tyeth a knot upon thread or haire though it be never so small with his mouth he feedeth himselfe with spoon-meat he Shuffels Cuts and Dealeth a pack of Cards with his mouth An observing Divine a Traveller and friend of mine told me upon occasion of Discourse of this armelesse man that he saw in Cheapside London but few daies before a child that was borne without Armes and had two little hands which it could move standing out of its shoulders a poore woman had the child in her armes begging with it Idem Lycost l. prod ostent p. 141 ex Rom. Histor Com. ad lib. 3. Tech. Galeni Text. 177. T. Gracchus M. Iuventius Consuls at Privenum there was a Girle born without a hand In Picenum there was an Infant borne without hands and feet Haly Rodoham saith he had seen a man who was then alive who had neither hands nor feet Anno 1591 Feet used for Hands Incert Author February 8th there was a Female born at Strausburge who wanted all her fingers both of her hands and feet and lived to the ninth of Iuly following It is not omitted by Dion Dion how that among other presents sent from the Indians to Augustus there was a little youth without Armes who yet with his feet performed the exploits of hands for he could bend a Bow shoot an Arrow and moreover sound a Trumpet We have seen saith Alexander Benedictus Alex. Benedict a woman borne without Armes using her Feet for hands in spinning and sewing Sim. Majolus Simon Majolus reports to have seen such Creatures often in Italy The Learned may find a world of such Histories in Skenckius and Aldrovandus And the recompence of this errour as they call it of Nature in a Brittish woman in Tulpius and in Lotichius Tulp obser med l. 3. c. 54. Lotich obser lib. 6. cap. 2. obser 4 5. of an English and a Dutch woman strangely recompenced in as much as some admiring the wonderfull dexterity of men of distorted lamed or dibilitated members or who are altogether deprived of them how they for the most part use other members besides their office they were ordained for have thought one might say considering the force of Custome which is another Nature that perfection did not consist in the distinction of members but in their continuall use The ordinary Complement with Nature upon such occasions is That Her unsearchable industry as it with great wittinesse appeareth every where yet more eminently in those bodies wherein as 't were unmindfull of her charge or businesse she hath frustrated of this or that member Sedigiti which errour as it were with some shamefac'dnesse she abundantly recompenceth by a munificent liberality Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 11. cap. 43. Gel. l. 15. c. 24. Petr. Crin l. 3. de poetis c. 65. Some men there be that have six fingers upon one hand Pliny reports that M. Curiatius a Nobleman of Rome had two Daughters so handed whereupon they were Surnamed Sedigitae He speakes also of one Volcatius who was an excellent Poet who had six fingers to one hand whereupon he was Surnamed Sedigitus Haly Rhod. Com. ad lib. 3. Tech. Galen num 177. Jac. Rueff de concept generat homin lib. 5. Haly saies he had often seen a finger added Iacobus Rueffus records of some that are borne with superabundant parts of their members one having twelve fingers upon his hands There was a monstrous Boy about fifteene yeares of age seen at Arelat Anno 1561. in the month of Iuly Valer. lib. 4. observ 2. who had six fingers on each hand but in his Left hand the ring and middle finger were joyned together without any space at all betweene them this Boys hands were broad Corvus the Chyromancer and H. Vuolfius affirme that they had seen such Franc. Joh. Post ad Schenck dat is observ In a certaine Town called Kittinga Postthius saies he saw an honest Matron with six fingers on a hand who brought forth a Son who had as many fingers Aldr. Monst Hist Aldrovandus was informed from men worthy of credit that lately in the Country of Ferrara viz. Anno 1579. on the twenty fourth day of Iuly about Evening there was a monster borne with foure Armes every of whose hands were bounded with six fingers Salmuthus saies A sixth finger unprofitable he knew a certaine Counsellours Daughters of Leipsick who obtained six fingers on either hand one was taken off from the right hand but there remained almost more deformity than before this maid also was lesse handy about any businesse on which occasion 't was doubted or made a quaery after what sort therefore in our Bibles the Giant of Gath was reported to be stronger than others 2 Sam. 21. in respect of his sixe fingers on his hands and feet Since according to Pliny Plin. l. 11. c. 52. looke what part is more than ordinary by Nature in any living Creature the same serveth to no use As for example the sixth finger in a mans hand is ever superfluous Coelius Rodig Antiq. Lec 17. cap. 12. and therefore fit for nothing
they strive to have their Children suck over their shoulders for this is a device contrary to the intention of Nature as plainly appeares by the scituation of the Breasts as we have shewed in our Vox Corporis or Morall Anatomy of the Body Sutable to this absurdity is the Custome of the Turkish women Helyn who carry not their Children in their armes as we do Very little Breasts affected but astride on their shoulders But more conceited is the Fashion of the Matrons of Dasamonque in Florida who have a strange manner of carrying their Children plainly diverse from ours For we as a gesture more conformable to the hint of Nature carry ours in our armes before our Breast they taking hold of the right hand of the Child beare them on their back De Bry Hist Ind. embracing the Child 's left-heele with their left-hand by a way as wonderfull and forreign as it is averse to Nature Purch Pilgr 3. lib. 2. More commendable are the women of Uraba who do mightily affect little Breasts and use all the Art they can devise to have them so Allowable is the use of those Cosmetiques which are contrived by Art to restraine the exuberancy of the over-grown Breasts and reduce them to their naturall proportion which in the corrective part of medicine is performed by refrigerating repercussive medicaments which drive backward the matter to the profundity and excellently advancing the naturall heat compell it to enter into the depth of the Body and so meeting with the Aliment afar off prevents its passage io the more superficiall parts and so consequently prohibits the undecent augmentation of the Breasts Yet the practice of some Indian women to avoid the deformity of sagging Breasts is no way allowed who having Teats that become loose and hanging use therefore abortions with a certaine herb because they will not have this deformity and when they fall the principall women beare them up with Bars of Gold As if the Breasts of women were intended only for ornament Doe you thinke saith Phaverinus Men with great Breasts Phaver in Aul. Gell. that Nature hath given women their swelling paps as so many more beautifull Warts not for the nourishing of Children but for the adorning of the Breast for so many prodigious women endeavour to dry and dam up that most sacred Fountaine of the body and feeder of mankind as if it should despoile them of the ensigns of Beauty of which not the Vulgar but the Learned complaine that the greatest part of women an ancient crime put forth their Children to be Nursed from whence there follows the frequent infirmities of mens Bodies together with a shortning of the age and a diminution in their stature The same or not much differing folly are they guilty of who use strange counterfeit sleights to abortiate the fruit of their Body that the smoothnesse of the Belly be not wrinkled and enfeebled with the weight of the burthen and the labour of Child-birth a thing deserving all hate and detestation that a man in his very originall whiles he is framed whiles he is enlived should be put to death under the very hands and in the Shop of Nature In Aegypt the men have greater Breasts than the biggest of our women for Prosp Alpin lib. de med Egypt c. 9. Prosper Alpinus writes that they grow so fat by their course of Diet that he never saw in any Country so many extreame fat men as he observed in Grand Cairo and he reports that most of them are so fat that they have Breasts far greater and thicker than the longest Dugs of women But if I should say that men in some Countries have not only great Breasts bearing out like unto women which give suck but that many men have given suck unto their own Children Male Nurses it would sound very strange and somewhat against kind Purch Pilgr 2. lib. 9. Alex. Benedict lib. 3. cap. 4. Anatom yet upon credible witnesses it appeares to be very true For one Peter a Christian Casar at Sofula his wife dying after Travell of a Daughter nourished the same with milke from his own Breast for a whole yeare Pitty of the motherlesse crying Infant which his poverty could not otherwise relieve caused him to seek to still it with laying it to his Breast and then gave it somewhat to drinke which having continued two or three dayes his Breast began to yield milke Purch Pilgr 2. lib. 9. A poore Jew of Ormus nourished his son with his Breast the Mother dying when it was young in the Cradle A poore man in Moura being sixty yeares old had as much milke as a woman-Nurse and gave suck to two Children I have not wherewith to accuse these Male Nurses of tampering with their Breasts yet since the businesse concornes the reputation of Nature 't is worth the scanning Anatomists say that men have scarce any Glandules since they according to Hippocrates were not to have any milke in their Breasts yet they deny not that such a kind of humour like unto milke may be ingendred in them which Aristotle cals milke but unfit for nourishment Bauhin Anat. As Bauhinus observed in two men whose Breasts were replenished with a more copious juice Idem Ibid. Alex. Buatus Vesal lib. 5. Hum. Corp. Fabr. lib. 18. sect 7. Tra. 1. Sum. 2. ca. 39. Jac. Font. Art med pars 1 yet a certaine learned man affirmes that there have been seen some who putting an Infant to their Breasts have given suck Vesalius saith that more than once he had seen abundance of milke in men which also Nicolus affirmes Jacobus Fontanus saith Women with manlike Breasts he knew a Butcher of a good habit of body and fat that had Breasts abounding with milke And Bauhinus confesseth Idem Ibid. that they who have viewed the new World report that men there generally almost have store of milke in their Breasts In particular we read of the Cumacaiaro's a Nation of Brasile Renuard Cysatus Ins Japonia Germanice that the men are endued with large Breasts swelling with milk which are sufficient for the suckling and nursing up of Infants their women on the contrary being endowed with small and manlike Breasts Which Femenine property of men although not so frequently Card. 4. de hist Anim. 20. de subtil 12. hath appeared also in this our old world Cardan affirmes that he saw at Venice one Antoney Bussey of thirty yeares of Age who had such abundance of milke in his Breasts as was not only sufficient to suckle a Child but it moreover sprouted out exuberantly Johan Conradus Schenckius the Son knew one Laurence Wolff who from his youth to fifty five yeares of Age being then so old abounded with such store of milke that in their meetings being drunke he would by way of sport compressing his Breasts ejaculate and spurt milk in the face of those that sate right over against him being known to
outward side and by consequence the Ligaments of the adverse sides are contracted whereby the Ioint must necessarily be bended either outward or inward Therefore although they had above denied the Curvity of the Bones to depend upon this yet they grant that the distortion of Ioints in weake Infants may happen through such a carelesnesse of Nurses granting moreover that by their constant and foolish Fasciation the bones which otherwise were streight may be incurvated although they do not esteeme it to be the constant and ordinary cause of this organicall infirmity Plut. in the Life of Licurgus The Spartan Nurses used a certaine and better manner to bring up their Children without swadling or binding them up in cloaths and swathing-bands Grimston of their manners so as they made them nimbler of their Limbs better shaped and goodlier of body And this was the reason why many strangers sought to have Nurses from Sparta to nurse and bring up their Children Purch Pilgr 2. lib. 9. In Candou Island one of the Islands accounted to Asia they never swadle their Children but let them go free yet never any prove deformed So do the Irish and yet none of their Children prove crooked although the women be not slender So they do in the North of England Where they never swaddle Children where the Rickets hath not much prevailed As for the swadling of Children they that dwell in hot Countries and neare the Tropicks Ramutius Narrat of Nova Francia have no care of it but leave them free unbound but drawing towards the North the Mothers have an eeven smooth board like the Covering of a Drawer or Cupboard upon which they lay the Child wrapped in a beaver furre unlesse it be too hot and tyed thereupon with some swadling-band whom they carry on their Backs their Legs hanging downe then being returned into their Cabins they set them in this manner up straight against a stone or something else In Brasile the Children are never swadled Lindscot lib. 2. or lapped in Cloaths but only laid in a little Cotton Bed we would thinke that if our Children should not be wound or swadled that they would grow crooked whereof not any are found among them but rather go uprighter than any people in the World The Canarins and Corumbins of the Indies Grimston of their manners who live not far from Goa the women among them are delivered without a midwife and then they presently wash their Children and lay them upon Indian figleaves and so they go presently about their businesse as if they had not been newly delivered the Children are nursed naked and when they are filthy they use no other mystery than to wash them with water so as they grow strong and active and fit for any thing for they are not daintily bred The men of this sort live many times an hundred yeares in perfect health and never lose tooth What swathing our Clymate requires mocking at our delights with the which we wrong our lives and nature Spigelius Anatom The Venetians therefore have an excellent Custome to involve rather than swathe their Infants in a light swath-band desiring to have rather a broad than a narrow Breast a full than a slender Fond opinion indeed hath obtained this with us that Children unlesse they were diligently involved and constrained in swathing-bands they would have distorted Legs Which the Barbarians take least care of who put their Infants new borne naked and unswathed into their Hamacchos whose Children notwithstanding of all Mortals go most streight 'T is confessed the temperature of the aire doth very much availe to that purpose and therefore we may allow our Children in Winter-time to be diligently involved and bound up with swath-bands in their Cradles because otherwise they are unfit to endure the Cold of our Climate but in Summer and temperate seasons of the yeare especially when there is no frosty weather with others good leave saith a learned Physitian I should thinke as much as I can attaine by experience that Infants are to be freed from these bands and set at liberty some kind of Couch invented for that purpose out of which they cannot fall and verily saith he I am of that mind that the extraordinary heat doth not a little incommodate wherewith Children in the time of Summer revinct with swath-bands are as it were stew'd Yet it is not to be omitted what our Physitians observe in their late learned Tract of the Rickets That the too early leaving off those swath-bands and blankets wherein Infants are discreetly involved Enquiry after the Causes of the Rickets is conceived to be one cause why Infants when they are new borne are very seldome troubled with the Rickets for Midwives and Nurses order new-borne Infants with such Art that their condition may as neare as can be approach unto that which they lately had in the Wombe For they on every side involve the whole body except the head in one continued inclosure whence the outward parts of the body and the first affected in this disease are defended against the injuries of the externall cold and the hot exhalations breaking out from any part of the Body by that swadling-clout perchance doubled or trebled and rolled about with swath-bands are evenly retained and equally communicated to all parts of the Body that they may be cherished as it were in a common stove with an equall heat Therefore since the chiefe part of the essence of this disease consists in an equall cold distemper no marvell if these muniments of the body do avert it at least for a time But when after some months if not sooner the hands of Infants are freed from that common covering as the Custome is and perchance before they are six months old their feet also in the day time although they are againe swathed at night all the day at least their outward members are destitute of this common nourisher of naturall heat Our Nurses also as they judiciously note often erre while they too soone coat feebler Infants for they unhappily define the time of Coating Children by number of months whereas they ought rather to make their account out of the activity and strength of motion in their feet and hands for when the motion and exercise of those parts may more confer to excite and cherish their heat A strange way of ordering Children and irritate their pulses than the nourishment of swath-bands without doubt then is the mature time for Children to be freed from their primative inrollments having then no other need of this propulsive cause The manner of ordering Infants among the Peruvians is worth the taking notice of for there the Children both of the Nobles and Plebeians are first washed in cold water and in like manner every day before they swathe them neither do they untill the third month let them have their Armes at liberty supposing that conduceth to their strength they lay them in woodden Cradles
and for some such ends have committed the same cruell Trespasse against Nature But the maine designe in this businesse originally was to make them more fit to keep their women the name Eunuch imposed upon them being as it were a cloake wherewith they covered the injury done to Nature it signifies as it were Chamberlaine and keeper of their Bed entertained and appointed for the preserving their women Montaig lib. 1. Essay 22. yet in some Countries where Eunuches have religious women in keeping because they shall not be loved they have also their Noses and Lips cut off And as the Genitall parts put a difference between Nation and Nation so between one Religion and another Religious Eunuchs For the Priests of Cybele the great mother of the Gods used to cut off their own members and so geld themselves without danger of death which they do with a sheard of Samian earth Voscius de orig progr Idolat lib. 2. I find in Voscius the reason why those Priests of the Goddesse gelded themselves it was but in respect of the Corne that was reaped but the seminall force is in the harvest for as the prolifique vertue is from the virile parts so seed from the Corne And by their Example a man of a simple wit to be revenged of his wife plaid such a pranke with himselfe of which Lucilius Lucil. Satyr â— Hanc ubi vult male habere ulcisci pro scelere ejus Testam sumit homo Samiam sibique illico telo Praecidit caulem testesque una amputabat ambo Plin. nat Hist lib. 11. Thus Religion also hath made Eunuches as the Priests of the Gaules who castrated themselves Mat. cap. 19. and of Stone-Priests became Galli Castrati French Capons And herein appeared most manifestly the Lapse of Origens judgement who having wrested and taken all other places of Scripture in an allegoricall sense took this Some have made themselves Eunuchs for the Kingdome of God in a litterall sense and to that end castrated himselfe And there were many in his time and since were hardly conceited of him that justly that he in the flower of his Age being then about twenty five yeares old should deprive himselfe of Virga virilis not having in those parts any disease that might require any such extirpation Divers waies of Castration for to deprive himselfe however sanctimonious his intentions were of those parts contrary to the order of Nature was an unlawfull mutilation and meere treason committed against her Two waies there are of this unnaturall dilapidation of the body one is performed by contusion the other by excision the last being more approved of for they who have suffered the contusion of their Testicles may now and then affect to play the man some part as it is likely of the Testicles lying hid within those that had passed this kind of Eunuchisme by contusion were called Thlibiae and Thladiae And because Physitians are now and then by Great ones against their wills compelled to castrate also Paul Aeginet lib. 6. cap. 68. Paulus Aegineta delivers the manner of operation A thing very improper to our Art which is the chiefest servant of Nature for whereas the Physitians Art doth reduce bodies from the state which is against Nature into the naturall the manner of making Eunuches which the Greekes call Eunuchismum promiseth the contrary But the keene jealousie of latter times hath gone a little nearer with Eunuches Rousset de partu Caesar sect 6. cap. 6. Hist 2. Cardan Comment in Hippo. l. de Aere Aqnis locis Lect. 62. Text. 19. Scaliger exercit 104. num 8. ad subtil Cardani and made them taste deeper of the Rasor even to the totall deprivation of the Genitals For although at first among the Turkes their Eunuches were only Castrati gelt yet since perceiving Eunuchos posse etiam non velle solum now they will not trust their Eunuches with any part of their virility no way confiding in simple Eunuches But the Eunuches in the Great Turks Seraglio who are in number about two hundred they are all of them not only gelt The time of making Eunuches but have their Yards also cleane cut off and are chosen of those Runegago youths which are presented from time to time to the Grand Signiour Graves descrip of the Grand Sign Court Few or none of them are gelt against their will For then as the Master Workmen in that businesse affirme they would be in great danger of death wherefore to get their consent they promise them faire and shew unto them the assurance they may have in time to become great men All which must be done when they are very young at their first comming into the Seraglio For it is a worke not to be wrought upon men of yeares which invention although it abate their courage yet they generally prove men of the greatest judgement and fidelity their minds being set on businesse rather than on pleasure This kind of Eunuchisme was of old a fashion in Persia and all parts of the Levant where it is a Custome to geld their Male Children when they are young that being Eunuches they may be capable of places of Trust and preferment in Princes Courts who indeed are often advanced by that meanes none being held so trusty as they especially to looke to their women who therefore thinke they have a good bargaine in exchanging the naturall Conduit of their Urine for a Quill which they weare in their hats in a way of jolly ostentation Marcus Paulus Thenetus and Garcias d' Orta a Portugall Physitian do deliver for a certainty that in Bengala a Kingdome most potent at this day seated on the Islands and mouth of the River Ganges in the East-Indies the Moores inhabiting that place Where they sell their Children to be made Eunuchs do travell into other forreigne Lands and the neighbouring Isles to buy young Children whose Parents being poore and covetous of money do sell their Sons else these villaines will rob and steale them thence and carry them quite away and not only cut off Virga but Parastrates also such as escape death after this cutting they educate them very delicately and afterwards sell them to the Persians and other Mahumatists who buy them at a very deare rate to wit three or foure hundred Ducats a piece to serve as men of their Chambers in a foule and unlawfull acquaintance and also to have the charge of their Wives The Turkes that dwell in Europe and Asia do use the very same Castration on such young boies as they can seize on in the Christian Countries and then make sale of them in manner aforenamed A practice seene and observed by the Lord Villamont in the City of Damas in Syria Ld Villamont Hist l. 3. c. 5. in the yeare 1589. where a beautifull Russian slave of a Bashaw whom his Master intended to geld in full manner before recited and then to present him
to his Daughter as one fit to attend her in her Chamber which deliberation comming into the Slaves understanding he concluded to shun his Masters intent because it was a hazzard of life either in Child or man and therefore rather than thus to dye he resolved to kill the Bashaw his Master before he would endure so notorious an infamy and executed his determination When other courses could not help many have been so bold as to Castrate themselves in the Leprosie Castration high Treason against Nature and have been better for you shall not easily find any Castrati or women troubled with that disease Some more confident Physitians have put to their hand and those who have escaped the danger have proved cured some in Mania or melancholly madnesse have attempted the same not without successe although they have remained somewhat melancholly like Gib'd Cats some for the prevention of the dangerous consequence of Hernia Intestinalis have undergone the same experiment And verily a dispensation may be granted in case of these inexorable and otherwise incurable diseases But upon any other pretence whatsoever to adulterate the coine and image of Nature by so grosse an allay as makes them not current for men or willingly to degenerate into the Nature of women suffering themselves to be transformed from the Masculine to the Feminine apparence a false Coppy is to offer as great an Injury to Nature as the malice of mans refractory wit can be guilty of And it is so manifestly against the Law of Nature to tamper with the witnesses of mans virility that our Laws have made it Felony to geld any man against his will There is an ancient Fable that the fish called Remora did stop the ship of Perianders Embassadors whom he had sent to geld all the Males that were left of the bloud Royall as if Nature her selfe held it an unworthy Act that man should be despoiled of these parts that were given him for the preservation of the whole kind And although this Castration of the Testicles being not done in an apparent part causeth of it selfe no deformity yet because when both the Testicles are cut out Castration of women other mischiefes follow especially if this be done while they are in the yeares of puberty which betray them to be Eunuches as an effeminate voice and the want of a beard by this means it bringeth a deformity upon them And although man may live without them yet after a manner they ought to be accounted as principall members Galen lib. de Semine for it appeares that Galen preferred the Testicles to the Heart for saith he the Heart indeed is the Author of life but the Testicles conduce to well-being for they communicate a certaine aire to the whole Body by whose mediation virility is reconciled the body acquires strength and firmenesse is made more lively at length the principall members do more perfectly execute their office which parts being cut away besides that men are deprived of the Generative power they want all these conveniencies the venerian moode is extinguished Love grows cold the Veines fall the colour and heat grow dead and withered they are made beardlesse and altogether effeminate therefore the Testicles are of that efficacy that they corroborate and affect the other bowels with a common benefit The extravagant invention of man hath run out so far as the Castration of women Coelius Rhod. li. 4. antiq lect in cap. 10. lib. 20. cap. 14. Athen. Dipn. lib. 12. Xanthus lib. 2. Lydiorum Alciat in lib. Spadonum Andramistes the King of Lydia as the report goes was the first that made women Eunuches whom he used instead of Male Eunuches after whose examples the women of Egypt were sometimes spaded Giges is accused of the same trespasse against Nature by Hesychius and Suidas The end might be the same in spading women as men both being made thereby impotent and so consequently apt to envy others The Danger of spading women and lesse subject to be corrupted with their passions Julius Alex. lib. 22. cap. 14. Salubr in annot ad Gal. pag. 122. Reiner Reineceius Tom. 3. Hist de Lydorum orig imper p. 82. Athen. Voscius lib. 17. de orig progressu Idolat fol. 1081 And it seemes Iulius Alexandrinus could never find that this was a received Custome in any Nation yet he had read in divers Authors of many Castrated to abate their untamed Lust But that end which the first inventors of this shamefull deed propounded to themselves was as is supposed to prolong their youth and that they might perpetually use and enjoy them in a flourishing condition of body It is an Anatomicall Question An mulier Castrati possit and it appeares de facto to have been done but concerning the manner of operation there ariseth a greater difficulty Whether they castrated women by drawing out their wombe or by avulsion of their Testicles Both Waies it is certaine that women will be brought into great danger of life for although Sows may be spaded yet with the like security it cannot be administred in women by reason of the seat wherein they are placed and the society they have with other parts For he must necessarily cut both the Flankes who would Castrate a woman Cardan Dialog Tetim inscript a worke full of desperate hazzard yet it may be done with little or no danger if it be attempted with an Artfull hand And a Friend of mine told me he knew a maid in Northampton-shire that was thus spaded by a Sow-gelder and escaping the danger grew thereupon very fat A Gentleman who undertooke since in some company to tell me this Story againe said that he was present at the Assizes of Northampton when this Sow-gelder was arraigned for this Fact I doubt there is some mistake in the Scene for by another Information of a Justice that was there A maid spaded a new way it was in Lincolne-shire and the Fact done upon Lincolne Heath and that was not his first Fact so that his first attempt might be upon the Northampton maid this last maids name was Margaret Brigstock but the Judges were much confounded how to give Sentence upon an Act against which they had no Law for although the Castration of men was Fellony by the Law yet there was nothing enacted against spading of women and well might they be ignorant of such a Case when Platerus the great Physitian professeth he remembreth not that ever he read or heard of such an attempt This Clearke for that was his name was hanged for this last Fact but not by a Law but for robbing her of two penniworth of Apples which she had in her Apron But it is more dangerous to pluck out the Wombe although this succeeded well to a certaine Sow-gelder who suspecting his Daughter guilty of Adultery violently extracting the Wombe spaded her after the manner of Cattle that afterwards she might be unfit for bearing of Children
titilationem diminiendo hinc Illa in Epigrammate invisa fuit haec inventio magis rationabile putans addidisse huic organo quam substraxisse Hence also it is thought there commonly passeth opinions of invitement that the Jewish women desire copulation with the Christians rather than their own Nation and affect Christian Carnality before Circumcised Venery D. Brown Pseudoxia Epidem as the ingenious Examiner of Popular errours well notes And yet it is noted that the Turkes Persians and most Orientall Nations use Opium to extimulate them to Venery and they are thought to speake probably who affirme their intent and effect of eating Opium is not so much to invigorate themselves in Coition as to prolong the act and spin out the motions of Carnality which Venerian Prolongers were intended to lengthen the titillations of Lust luxurious Leachers thinking Nature too sudden in her motions And therefore Mahomet well knowing this their beastly and inordinate affection promiseth them that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of Conjunction that is a coition of one Act prolonged unto fifty yeares For any Naturall end therefore except in case of an Epidemicall disease or Gangrene to Circumcise The end of Judaicall Circumcision that is to cut off the top of the uppermost skin of the secret parts is directly against the honesty of Nature and an injurious unsufferable trick put upon her As for Circumcision commanded by God it was for a morall reason and had an expresse command otherwise Dr Whateley as a Grave Divine expresseth it in the case of Abraham as a naturall man it would have seemed the most foolish thing in the world a matter of great reproach which would make him as it made his Posterity after him to seeme ridiculous to all the world it carried an apparence of much indecency and shamefulnesse to cause all his servants to discover themselves unto him Much more might have been alleadged against this Ordinance What good could it do What was any man the better because he had wounded himselfe and put his body to torture And indeed as Lactantius Eucherius Irenaeus and all the Greeke and Latin Fathers say unlesse this mutilation of the flesh in the Iews did signifie the Circum-of the heart or had some figurative meaning in it as the taking away of Originall sin it would have been a most unreasonable thing For if God would have had only the Fore-skin cut off he had from the beginning made man without a Prepuce No little danger of life also they incurred in this case for the Iudaicall Circumcision was performed with a sharpe cutting stone and not with any knife of iron steeled a thing which was most dolorous and whereby the young tender Infants sometimes got a Feaver whereof they after dyed Howbeit they had enough to do with other occasions as the cutting and fall of the Navel whereby Hyppocrates giveth assurance that Children do incur divers dangers Thevet and many others who have voyaged into the Countries where this Circumcision is used Circumcision of women do say that they have seen store of young people dye grown to indifferent stature and young Children of eight daies old only by being Circumcised which may manifestly be proved by Sacred Histories The Sons of Jacob after they had fraudulently Circumcised all the Males of the City of Sichem scituate in the Land of Canaan they tooke them the third day after their Circumcision and made them passe the Edge of the Sword for they well knew that they were so sore and tormented with paine as they could not stand upon their own defence Cael. Rhod. In Arabia there is a kind of People called Creophagi among whom they were not wont to circumcise Judaically the men only but the women also Herb. Travels The women of the Cape of Good Hope also excise themselves not from a notion of Religion but as an Ornament Bellonius 3. observ 28 Jovius lib. 3. Magin Geogr. In Ethiopia especially in the Dominions of Prester Iohn they Circumcise women These Abassines have added errour upon errour and sin upon sin for they cause their Females to be circumcised whom they call Cophles A thing which was never practised in Moses Law neither was there ever found any expresse Commandement to do it I know not where the Noselesse Moores learned it for they cut their Females although they be of marriage estate taking away a certaine Apophosis or excrescence of musculous skin that descendeth from the superiour part of the Matrix which some call Nympha or Hymenea one growing on either side even so far as the Orifice of the neck of the Bladder The way of Circumcising women which serve the erection to coition Many women both here and elsewhere have caused themselves to be cut as being over-great and exceeding Nature but not for any matter of Religion In all which places it is done by cutting that part which answereth the Prepuce or Foreskin in a man The Chiribichenses use to bind up the Fore-skinne of their Privities with a little Cord Helyn Geogr. and untie it not but to make water or when they use the Act of Generation Montaigne in his Essaies Nations that tye up the end of their Yard speaking of these late discovered Nations saith as there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their Yard and to cut off the Fore-skin after the manner of the Mahometans and Jews Some there were found that made so great a conscience to unhood it that with little strings they carried their Fore-skin very carefully out-stretched and fastned above for feare that end should see the aire A restraint which if Nature had imposed upon them Momus might have found an occasion to Cavill and they scape well if they pay not deare for this invention and that some are not oftner borne with their secrets so contracted and drawn together as some have beene among us for which Fabricius ab aqua pendens hath shewed the way of Chyrurgicall reduction Fabricius ab Aquapendens in Chirurg affirming upon his own experience that such are not barren as some have thought them to be This phantasticall cohibition against the freedome of Nature in this part Purch Pilgr 2. lib. 7. makes me reflect upon as inconvenient a restraint deserving but a collaterall insertion imposed upon the reverse of this and the benefit we receive from the egestions of Port Esquiline For the Guineans are very carefull to let a fart and wondred at the Netherlands rusticity and impudence who used it so commonly and durst commit such a stinke in presence they esteeming it not only to be a great shame and contempt done unto them but they had rather die than perpetrate such an abominable act De Bry Hist Ind. The Irish are much of the same opinion in this point of unnaturall restraint whereas the Romans by an Edict of Claudius the Emperour Where they adorne
impotent Sex of women and children whereof they being extremely in love withall have stolne away and ravisht For they are earnestly prone unto venery which is common to them with the Satyrs of other ancient writers Yea sometimes so saucy and leacherous that the Indian women do therfore shun those Launes and Forrests worse than a Dog or Serpent wherein these lascivious Creatures do lurke and inhabit All which things are for a very truth related of this Satyr Which makes me remember the conceit of a certaine Historian who describing the deformed aspects of a Nation If you beheld saith he their ugly visages you would thinke that they had no other Sires than the Apes and Baboons of the neighbouring Woods Vnlesse the frequent beholding of these unlucky things should by impregnating the imagination of teeming women produce such a similitude as it happened to a Noble man whom Salmuthus speakes of Salmuthus observ med cent 2. who kept an Ape which for sport-sake went round about the Table his wife being great with child playing very often with it afterwards at her delivery she brought forth an Infant from the girdle upwards an Ape to wit as far as he could be seen dancing above the Table but below a man a miserable spectacle and the more miserable that this horrid monster was to be suckled This Relation of Tulpius shews this Creature to have been a kind of Ginney Drill for it answers very directly the Effigies of that Ginney Drill Ginney Drils of what Tribe which this Michaelmas Terme 1652. I saw neare Charing Crosse the haire of whose head which was black grew very like the haire of a child it was a compleat Female too not above eleven months old and yet it seemed to me to answer the Dimensions which Tulpius gives of his Angola Satyr The Keeper of it affirmes it will grow up to the stature of five foot which is the ordinary size of little men He would go upright and drinke after the same manner Her Keeper intended never to cut her haire but to let it grow in full length like a womans in case she should dye her carkasse was bespoke for Dissection by some Anatomists who perchance have a Curiosity to search out what capacity of Organs this Rational Bruit had for the reception of a reasonable soule or at least of such a delitescent reason which Drill is since dead and I beleeve dissected but of the Dissectors and their observations I have not received any intelligence Of which monster I may say what Jordanus saies of the aforesaid Orang Outang or Tulpius his wild man that it proceeded from the wicked copulation of man and beast the Devill Cooperating and Divine revenge without all doubt ensuing thereupon of the same Tribe and Originall were those two children which the Portugall woman bore to the Great Ape Castannida in Annal. Lusitaniae when she was exposed into a desert Island inhabited only by such Apes a story well known in Portugall and is worth the reading in Delrio And indeed they very much resemble them in the Face especially in the Nose which is very flat and Camoyse with repanded Nostrils an Ape being called Simia Which kind of Ape is most like man not from imitation as some unskilfull Grammarians suppose but a simitate from this simity of a saddle-like Nose and it is the opinion of Scaliger that these kind of Apes who have no Tailes approach neerer to the similitude of man than those that have Tailes although they be almost men both in manners and understanding which he confesseth he had often wondred at In Ginney and Binney there are innumerable store of these rational Bruits and where they are they go in heards and companies but are of two Societies The Monkeys alwaies keepe by themselves and great and little as they are only of that kind consort together and even in Islands that lie within the River they are as frequent as on the Maine which condemnes the report is of them that they cannot swim and being in the water will drown presently for in my own knowledge I can affirme that having bought a Monkey of the Country people who use to bring them unto us and sell them for poore things being got loose in my boat that rid in the middle of the River he leapt into the water to swim on shore and being pursued by one of our men who swam after he did dive under water diverse and sundry times before he could recover him But to speake of the Baboone * Which I take to be the Drill and is without a Taile I must say it is a wonderfull thing to observe a kind of Commonwealth that is amongst them they have none but their own kind together and are in Heards of three or foure thousand in a Company as they travell they go in ranke whereof the Leaders are certain of the bigger sort Baboones and Monkies and there is as great and large of them as a Lion the smaller following and ever now and then as a Commander a great one walkes the Females carry their young under their bellies except she have two and then one under and the other above In the reare comes up a great company of the biggest sort as a guard against any pursuing enemy and in this manner do they march along they are very bold and as we passe in the River when we come neare their Troopes they will get up into the Trees and stand in gaze upon us and in a kind of collerick humour the great ones will shake the trees and with their hands clatter the boughs in that fashion as it doth exceed the strength of a man to do the like barking and making a noise at us as if they were much offended and in this manner many times they will follow us along and in the night time where we ride at an anchor take up their stands or lodgings on the mountaine tops or on the Trees that are above us where we heare their government for many times in the night you shall heare such a noise of many of their voices together when instantly one great voice exalts it selfe and presently all are hush and the noise is dasht so as we were wont to say Master Constable speakes likewise when we are ashore and meet with these Troupes on a sudden the great ones will come forward and seeme to grin in our faces but offer up a gun and away they pack One of our people one day as we came neare the shore in our boat and a troope of these shavers being gazing on us made a shot and kill'd one of them When Apes began to grow like men which before the boat could get on shore the others had taken up betwixt them and carried quite away but we have killed of them which the Country people do much desire and will eate of very heartily wherein I hope never to take their part And lastly let me tell you that
monsters may proceed and in such monstrifique Creatures when the seed of the Male if it be a man is more vigorous in the supernall parts of the foetus then the superiour parts result unto a humane forme and if the seed of the Bruit in the formature of the inferiour parts hath a valid operation then the lower parts of the monster become Belluine It is verily a horrid thing to be spoke that man the Prince of all Creatures and which is more created in the Image of God should flagitiously mingle with a Bruitish Copulation so that a Biformed breed halfe men and halfe beasts are ingendred by the confusion of seed of divers Species of which there have come abominable and promiscuous Creatures to the horrid abasement and confusion of the humane forme the effect whereof although it seeme impossible to Galen yet to Baptista Porta Baptista Potta iâ— Magica natural Vide Wekerum de secretis li. 5. Iacob Rueff lib. 5. de Generat Hom. who hath written of the Art of getting Monsters and hath strange histories of such productions it seemes not impossible although difficult and he annexeth his reasons yet in my opinion Jacobus Rueffus gives the best account of this difficulty who affirmes that Bruites may conceive by men and men likewise by Bruits which he makes good by three reasons first from naturall appetite secondly Bauhin lib. de Hermophrad Kornman lib. de mirac vivorum Delrio disquis Mag. from the provocation of nature by detectation thirdly by the attractive virtue of the Matrix which is alike both in Bruits and Men. The curious and diffident may find the matter of fact confirmed by many examples in Bauhinus Kornmannus and Delrio and therefore we may spare those testimonies that would confirme the Possibility of the thing Whether of a man and a beast a true man may be borne And indeed I do not find the thing absolutely denied as impossible but rather that it is questioned whether such a production be a true man or a monster Delrius who is somewhat incredulous in this point saies he is certaine that of a man and a Beast a true man cannot be borne because a Beasts seed is void of that perfection which is required to the mansion place of so noble a soule wherefore if any thing be borne of such a mixture it will be a monster and not a man for such an off spring followes the worser condition of the seed Et seb Neiremberg in Hist Naturae Eusebius Neirembergensis also puts the question whether of seed not humane a true man may arise that is whether by the horrible Copulation of a woman and a beast a true man may be brought forth he thinkes we ought not liberally to beleeve these things neither thinkes he it to be above the power of Nature if the womans seed be efficacious and he puts the other question whether any other womb besides a womans hath been the receptacle of a humane off-spring and he thinkes that if the Issue require the efficacity of both Parents none but the wombe of a woman can lodge a true man adorned with understanding but if the force only of the Male fabricate the Progeny and the woman only is but the shop then he thinkes perchance according to Physitians it will be possible after that hainous coition a man may be cherished in a beasts wombe the Seed of man being before cast therein but if any thing hath been produced in shape like unto man it is never without some gage of an irrationall nature When Nature is impedite many strange transpositions and deformities both in excesse and defect Monsters born with many Feet have appeared in these fundamentall and sustaining parts of the body P. Africanus and Laelius Consuls Jul. obseq de Prodig at Amiternum there was a boy borne with three Feet and one Hand Appius Claudius and P. Metellus Consuls Idem eod lib. at Amiternum there was a Boy borne with three Feet all the other parts of his body rightly constituted Anno Domini 1552. In England not far from Oxford there was a Girle borne with two Heads Jacob. Rueffus foure armes and hands with two Legs on one side and one on the other so that she seemed to abound with three feet See more examples of these Monstrosities in Scene 18. At Constantinople there was a Boy borne with foure feet Lycost lib. prodig Anno Domini 601. Jul. obseq ex Rom. Hist P. Africanus and C. Fulvius Consuls there was a Female child borne with foure feet Moreover Lycost there have been little Children borne with foure feet Before the yeare of our Redemption 162. Idem there was an Infant born who had foure feet and as many armes In the 160 yeare before Christs Incarnation there was an Infant borne at Caere Idem with foure feet Anno 132. Aldrovand yeares before the yeare of our Lord there was a maid seen endued with foure Legs Man when he first attempteth to go being not as yet susteined by reason of his weake and feeble feet is equivocally called Quadrupes or a foure-footed Creature Whether man can go upright if never taught and some there have been found who have not been instructed how to go have gone on all foure like foure-footed Beasts Plin. lib. 7. The naturall Historian is much scandalized at this Stepdame-like trick of Nature that man should be so untowardly borne that the first hope he conceiveth of his strength and the first gift that Time affordeth him makes him no better than foure footed Beasts How long is it saith he ere he can go alone As for all other living Creatures there is not one but by an instinct of Nature knoweth this man only knoweth nothing unlesse he be taught and cannot so much as go unlesse he be trained to it and to be short is apt and good at nothing naturally but to pule and cry If man by a naturall instinct cannot raise his body and walke upright but must unlesse taught another posture crawle on the earth upon all foure with other Creatures to what end was his upright frame given him Or how should he deserve the name of Anthropos and behold that mansion prepared for him above And if he cannot stand nor go erect upon his own account the Poets have abused him Ovid. Metamorph Os homini sublime dedit Coelumque tueri Jussit erectos ad sidera tollere vultus Silius Ital. lib. 5. Nonne vides hominum ut Celsos ad sidera vultus Sustulerit Deus ac sublimia finxerit ora And the Roman Oratour to as small purpose Cicer. lib. 5. de Legibus Solum hominem erexit ad Coeli quasi Cognationis pristini conspectum excitavit Conrad Gesner In the Forrest of Hanseburge in Misnia there was a Monster found having the body of a man Manugrades with the Talons of an Eagle with a yellowish beard and haires
of which kind there be many in those parts of Guiana but is supposed to proceed from some infirmity of body Among other wild men the Cinnaminians are to be admired for their prolix beards Aldrovandus and the hairinesse of their whole bodies the women also being all over hairy These Relations make me wonder at the opinion of Platerus Platerus in Deformatione observ lib. 3. who denies that there are any wild men to be found all over hairy except the tip of their nose their knees and the palmes of the hand and feet as they are usually painted and conceived of by the Vulgar which that it is false we may hence saith he collect that Cosmographers who have described the whole world make no where mention of them when yet notwithstanding they have not omitted the wildest people the Amazons Canibals and Americans and others which go naked The cause of pilosity and yet are not hairy and those haires that naturally breake forth they pluck forth and eradicate It is observable and makes to our purpose that savage men are more hairy than those that are civill degenerating by their Bruitish kind of life into the nature and resemblance of beasts who are more hairy than men Besides the generall examples of all barbarous Nations we have a particular demonstration of this Bruitish Metamorphosis in the transformation of Nebuchadnezzer Dan. 4. and more lately in the storie of Iohn of Leiden mentioned by Sir K. Digby in his Treatise of the soule The cause of the natural smoothness in men is not as my L. Bacon noteth any abundance of heat and moisture Lord Bacons nat hist cent 7. exp 680. though that indeed causeth pilosity but there is requisite to pilosity not so much heat and moisture as excrementitious heat moisture for whatsoever assimilateth goeth not into the haire and excrementitious moisture aboundeth most in Beasts and Men that are more savage The head indeed of man hath haire upon the first birth which no other part of the body hath The cause may be want of perspiration for much of the matter of haire in the other parts of the body goeth forth by insensible perspiration And besides the Skull being of a more solid substance nourisheth and assimilateth lesse and excerneth more and so likewise doth the Chin we see also that haire commeth not upon the Palmes of the Hands nor Soles of the Feet which are parts more perspirable And Children likewise are not hairy for that their skins are more perspirable Many have been born abounding with shagged haire almost like unto water-Spaniels Men borne with shagged haire like a water Spaniel we read first of Esau that he was the first of this Tribe Gen. cap. 27. Majolus in Colloquiis and Majolus recites a story that in the Town of Pisa named Petrosancta there was borne of a smooth woman a Virgin covered all over with long haire whose image Aldrovandus hath exhibited the cause of which effect Authors refer to the Picture of St Iohn Baptist painted after the usuall manner cloathed in Camels haire whose image hanging in her Chamber the mother had wishtly beheld All rugged with haire having pawes like a Beare was that Infant which was borne 1282. Lycosthenes of an illustrious Matron Martin the fourth being then Pope of Rome by whose command all the Pictures of Beares which were found in that Ladies house were blotted out and defaced a manifest argument of the received imagination of the Effigies of the Beares in Conception Peucerus Peucerus seemes to confirme this production by another such like case declaring that Anno 1549. he saw a Child covered over with a Beares skin Moreover Columbus confesseth Columbus that he saw a certaine Spaniard beset with long haires in all parts of his body except his hands and Face Julius Caesar Scaliger Scaliger remembers a certaine little Spaniard covered with white haires which he reports to have been brought out of India or to have been borne of Indian Parents in Spaine Also Henry the second Boscius King of France at Paris caused a young man who was no lesse hairy than a Dog to be instructed and bred up a Scholler And of late in the Pallace of the Duke of Parma there were hairy men kept Nations that wind their bones like Sinews who were brought from other parts to wit as I conceive Platerus in D format obser lib. 3. from France for Platerus who denieth that there beany hairy Nations yet alloweth that there are many of both Sexes more hairy than others confesseth that he saw at Brasil Anno 1583. being then to be transported into Italy the Children of this hairy man begotten of a smooth woman to wit a boy of nine yeares and a girle of seven yeares old who together with their mother had been sent into Flanders to the Duke of Parma Purch Pilgr 1. lib. 1. Jo. Bohem. de rit gent. lib. 3. Geor. Draud com in Solin Magin in Geog. Indiae orient Maffaeus hist ind lib. 1. In the Island of Iamuli the Inhabitants who exceed us foure Cubits in stature and the holes of whose eares are much wider than ours winde their bones this way and that way as they please like sinewes so do the Nairoes also Maginus and Maffaeus both say that after their seventh yeare they are prepared to an incredible agility and dexterity by often annointing their whole body with the oyle Sesamum whereby their nerves and bones are so suppled and relaxed that they can easily winde and turne their bodie and at pleasure bow it to what part they please afterwards they accustome themselves with all care and diligence in corporall exercises and learne nimbly to handle their Armes The Author of the descript of Nova Francia lib. 2. cap. 10. And the Author of the description of Nova Francia saies that these Nobles and Warriours of the Malabars the Nairoes to make themselves such they help Nature and their sinewes are stretched out even from seven yeares of Age which afterwards are anointed and 〈◊〉 â—â—th the oile of Sesamum which make◠〈…〉 well their bodies at will that they seeme to have no bones Art used to make maids fat Schenckius thinkes without doubt they have nervous bones Schenck obser de cap. 355. Yet they who should see our Funambuli and Tumblers who have been brought up from their youth to their feats of activity would think as much of them whom we have seen to twist and winde their bodies very strangely as if they had no bones The Mangones Hier. Merc. de decoratione 14. Galen Method cap. 16. that they might make their bodies more fat for sale were wont to whip their buttocks and loines with rods and so by degrees make them more fleshy which is noted by Galen as no contemptible stratagem to attract the nourishment to the outward parts And there be nations out of the Tropicks who by exercise and
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
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 hear 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-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 sit 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 to growth but after a man is come to his middle age heat consumeth the spirits which the coldnesse of the spirit of Nitre doth help to condense and correct This Corpulency or obesitie is a deformity which hurts the beauty and actions of the body that which is first affected by the immense grosnesse being the forme Fatnesse when it doth prejudice Nature which is but a Symptome when it only hurts the beauty and forme but it is a disease when it doth not only prejudice the beauty but offends the actions of the body for this superfluous burden of flesh which as Avicen speakes is as a fetter and clog unto them hinders motion deambulation operation and respiration and even the actions which appertaine to the conservation both of the Species and Individuum Now since this immense fatnesse or store of flesh ariseth not from any preternaturall matter but out of a naturall yet so that by reason of abundance it proves offensive this disease of Figure is coupled with a disease of Magnitude and it seemes worthy of a doubt whether in obesity which is a Disease according to Magnitude be also a Disease in Figure the truth is Obesity doth not necessarily vitiate the figure after that manner whereby diseases are made according to it the forme indeed and beauty is vitiated but not the rectitude nor the Cavity neither any other things which constitute that which is called Figure by Physitians I speake not of naturall fatnesse but of that which is ascititious and accidentall to those who through gurmandizing voracity and ease become ventrose and Tenter-bellied All-Panehes which are allyed to the Eat-alls and Drink-alls who swim up the River Sauce to the famous Fleshpastinople who look as if their hands as the Proverb speakes had put out their eyes these Epicure Hellio's stand in need of Cosmetique Diet to reduce them to that just proportion and true terme of Latitude and profundity which in a well proportioned body ought not to exceed the measure of a Cubit The naturall magnitude of the body Joan. Gorop Becan in Gigantomachia according to the standert of Goropius As to the Magnitude of the Body it is threefold according to the tripple kind of Dimensions to wit Longitude
many inches this is confirmed by Solinus who writes that the Syrbotae of Aethiopia grew to the height of twelve feet and in another place that there was certaine people of India so great that they easily ascended Elephants Onosicrit c. 5. Onosicritus reports that in certaine places of India where there are no shadows there are men of five Cubits and two Palmes high Olaus Mag. lib. 5. cap. 2. Olaus Magnus placeth such men also in the Northerne parts and especially in the Kingdome of Helsingori which is under the command of the King of Swethland he makes mension of a Giant that was nine Cubits high Isidore confesseth that there are men to be found of twelve foot high Isidorus Etymolog l 11. c. 3. Isid lib. de rerum natur but in another Tract he delivers a strange report of an admirable procerity in these words In the Westerne parts saith he there was found a maid whom the raging waves of the sea had cast up from the Ocean unknown and wounded in the head and dead who was fifty Cubits long and between the shoulders foure Cubits broad cloathed in a purple garment which thing seemes incredible Vincent hist Nat. l. 31. c. 125. Korn ex Odoric yet some Historians of credit subscribe unto it Odoricus reports that he saw with the Great Cham a Giant of twenty foot high In former Ages to wit She-Giants Zonaras in Iustino under Iustin the Thracian a certaine woman of Cilicia appeared Giant-like both in tallnesse of body as also in proportion of the other members for she exceeded the height of the tallest men a Cubit with breasts and shoulders above the usuall manner broad all the rest as the Voice and Face and firmenesse and magnitude of her Armes and Cubits and the thicknesse of her fingers and other parts answering to her Longitude and Latitude Saint Austin hath left upon record the memoriall of a Giant-like woman St Aug. de Civitat dei c. 23. which to the great admiration of all men was seen at Rome before the City was sacked by the Goths The Author of the Book entitled De natura rerum makes mention of a remarkable stature found in the Westerne Regions such tall Viragoes were the Bradamantes Marfisa and our long Meg of Westminster but of many of these we may say they are rather mountaines of flesh than men The Question is why such men of such vast bodies and strength are not found in our daies many reasons are alleadged for it but the most rationall is the luxury and lasciviousnesse of the times which hardly suffers Nature to get any thing perfect not that there is any decay in Nature but it may well be that in these parts of the world where Luxury hath crept in with Civility there may be some diminution of strength and stature in regard of our Ancestours And here I cannot but take occasion to condole the injury done to Nature in the generative procacity to Rathe marriage used in England and elsewhere which is the cause why men be now of lesse stature than they have been before time The cause of small stature Arist polit lib. 7. cap. 16. for we observe not the rule of Aristotle in his Politiques who would have men so marry that both the man and the woman might leave procreation at one time the one to get Children the other to bring forth which would easily come to passe if the man were about eight and thirty yeares of age when he married and the woman about eighteen for the ability of getting Children in the most part of men ceaseth at seventy yeares and the possibility of conception in women commonly ceaseth about fifty so the man and the woman should have like time for generation and conception But this wholsome rule is not followed but rather the liberty of the Civill Law put in practice that the woman at twelve yeares of age and the man at fourteen are marriageable Which thing is the cause that men and women in these daies are both weake of body and small of stature yea in respect of those that lived but forty yeares ago in this Land much more then in comparison of the ancient Inhabitants of Brittaine who for their talenesse of stature were called Giants so dwarfed are we in our stature and fall short of them that that of the Poet is verified on us Terra malos homines nunc educit atque pusillos Which thing is also noted by Aristotle in the same place Est adolescentium conjunctio improba ad filiorum procreationem In cunctis enim animalibus juveniles partus imperfecti sunt Et feminae crebrius quam mares parva corporis forma gignuntur The cause of tallnesse of stature quocirca necesse est hoc idem in hominibus evenire Hujus autem conjectura fuerit quod in quibuscunque civitatibus consuetudo est adolescentes mares puellasque Conjugari in iisdem inutilia pusilla hominum corpora existunt In Florida they are not joyned in marriage untill forty yeares old Hier. Giran Cosmogr and they suckle their Children untill twelve yeares or untill they can provide for their own sustentation But if we cast our eyes abroad upon those Nations which still live according to Nature though in fashions more rude and barbarous we shall find by the relation of those that have lived among them that they much exceed us in stature still retaining as it seemes the vigorous constitution of their Predecessors which should argue that if any decay be it is not universall and consequently not naturall but rather adventitious and accidentall For proofe hereof to let passe other stories of Giants of late yeares as that which Amatus Lusitanus speakes of Amat Lusitan Curat 95. borne in Senogallia Parsons Evans the late Kings Porter c. We will content our selves with the Indies Melchior Nunnez in his Letters where he discourseth of the affaires of China reports that in the chiefe City called Paguin the Porters are fifteene foot high and in other letters written the same yeare 1555 he doth averre that the King entertaines and feeds five hundred such men for Archers of his Guard In the West Indies in the Region of Chica neare the mouth of the Streights Ortelius describes a people whom he termes Pentagones from their huge stature Nations of Giants being ordinarily of five Cubits long which make seven foot and an halfe whence their Country is known by the name of the Land of Giants Americus Vesputius who searched into the unknown parts of the world found out an Island at this day called the Island of Giants it may be them which Ortelius describes Sir Francis Drake his voyage about the world Magellane as the great Encompasser of the World observes was not altogether deceived in naming of them Giants for they generally differ from the common sort of men both in stature bignesse and strength of body as also in the
and Sianitae people of India derived their originall from women impregnated by Devils The Neffesoglions among the Turkes are thought to be borne of such Inculi or Succubi The history of the Occidentall Kingdomes do evidently declare that the Nation of the Hunns were generated from Incubi and fame reports that the Island of Cyprus was wholly depopulated and inhabited by the sons of Incubi Bonfinius Bonfinius deduceth the originall of the Huns from such Incubi spirits for he saith that Filimerus the King of the Goths expelled all the whores out of his Army and drove them into solitary places lest they should enervate the mind and bodies of his Souldiers to these afterwards the Incubant Spirits resorted and by their Congresse with them the most cruell Nation of the Huns were descended whose manners not only but their Tongues and speech was so fierce and barbarous Mart. Delrio disq mag Jordanus de eo quod divinum supernaturate est in morbis Kornman de vivor mirac Bauhinus lib. Hermaphrodit that it degenerated from all humanity Histories of such Congresses with Incubusses and Succubusses you may find in Kornmannus Bauhinus and others and of their nefarious Issue Among others Apollonius Tyanaeus and Merlin who were supposed of this extraction participated most of the subtilty of their Ancestors but the better to shew that Devils according to Delrio may produce many strange monsters Whether Devils may have to do with women The strangenesse of another History cals for admittance in this place It is reported that in Brasile from the copulation of a barbarous woman with an Incubus there was an horrid monster procreated which grew to the height of sixteen Palmes Kornman de mirac vivor his back covered with the skin of a Lizzard with swolne Breasts Lions Armes staring and rigid Eyes and sparkling like fire with the other members very deformed and of an ugly aspect And the birth of such monstrous mixtures must needs be monstrous Tostatus truly observeth Tostatus in 6. Gen. Quaest 6. Talibus conceptibus robustissimi homines procerissimi nasci solent of such conceptions are wont to be borne the strongest and talest of men Vallesius de sacra Philosoph cap. 8. And Vallesius having given the reason hereof at large which for feare of offending chaste Eares I list not to produce At last concludes Robusti homines ergo grandes ut nascerentur poterant ita Demones procurare Yet enquiries have been made among the Learned first whether Devils may have to do with women Secondly whether examples of this Congression can be produced Thirdly whether they may conceive by the Devill and a Child be borne Fourthly How they are impregnated and of the seed of the Devils Fifthly whether examples be granted of progeny of a demoniacall Succubus Sixthly whether men may also engender with demoniacall Succubusses and Children be borne of them Learned and subtile discourses of these subjects the Curious may find in Bauhinus And verily Bauhin lib. 1. de Hermaphr although these things are incredible yet they are true that evill spirits endowed with bodies That Devils may exercise venerious acts with women exercise venerious acts with women D. Aug. de civitat dei l. 15. cap. 23. Et l 1. Quaest super Gen. 43. and also generate St Augustine seems to be fully perswaded of the truth hereof it is commonly reported saith he and many affirme that either themselves have found it by experience or heard it from those of whose credit there was no doubt to be made who had themselves experienced it that Satyrs and Fairies whom they call Incubi have been often lewd with women lusting after them and satisfying their lusts with them and that certaine Devils whom the Gaules call Drusii daily doe attempt and performe the same filthinesse See Aquin. pars 1 9 11. Art 3. ad Sext. Et Zanch. de oper dei lib. 4. cap. 60 In Thes Francisc Georg. Tom. 6. Prob. 32. c. 33. such and so many affirme as to deny this were a point of impudence Many of the Ancients were also of this opinion as Josephus Tertullian Lactantius Eusebius Thomas Scotus and others How they become the Artificers of such an effect or their manner of operation the inquisitive may find in Kornmannus and Vallesius Kornman de mirac vivor Vallesius de sacra Philosophia for my part I conceive were these Queries justly held in the Affirmative mans inventions whereby he hath endeavoured as much as in him lies to Diabolize himselfe might have been spared for as Paraeus out of Wierus speakes If the faculty of generation had been allowed to Devils the world had been long since full of Devils How many monsters from the beginning of the world had the Devils brought forth to us What prodigies had they produced by conveying every where their seed into the wombs of women For it is the saying of Philosophers As often as a faculty and will concur to the same thing the effect is necessarily produced and is wont to appeare That Devils cannot generate upon women But there was never wanting a will to Devils of disturbing mankind and the order of this world for the Devill is as they say our Enemy from the beginning and as God is the Author of order and beauty so the Divell adverse to God is of confusion and turpitude Therefore if to this evill mind and disposition if to the most full will of this wickednesse and envy a like power had accrewed who can doubt but the utter confusion of all things and speciesses the greatest deformity had invaded the compt and beautified neatnesse and honesty of Nature with monsters every where arising And you should long since have heard of men miserably transformed into Diabolicall Changelings blessed therefore be the Creator of man who hath secured his beloved Creature from the malice and unappeasable rage of such an Enemy and Deformer As Chrysostome Nazianzen Hierom Theodoret Cyrill and of the modernes Philippus Broideus Cardanus Baptista Porta and Remigius For what a repugnancy would it be as one saith both to Religion and nature if the Devils could get men when we are taught to beleeve that not ever any was begotten without humane seed except the Son of God The Devill then being a spirit having no corporall substance but in appearance and therefore no seed of Generation to say that he can use the act of generation effectually is to affirme that he can make something of nothing and consequently the Devill to be God for Creation solely belongs to God alone Againe if the Devill could assume to him a dead body That Monsters may be made by the Art of Naturall Magique and enliven the faculties of it and make it able to generate as some affirme he can yet this body must beare the image of the Devill and it is against Gods glory to give permission so far unto him as out of the Image
dependeth their originall grace and comlinesse which can no way better be done then by cutting them according to the naturall shape and proportion of the body as we may probably imagine the skin-garments were wherewith the Lord God who best knew their shape first cloathed the nakednesse of our first Parents What use is there of any then Arming sleeves which answer the proportion of the arme Or to what end are our breeches as wide at the knee as the whole circumference of the waste Or why so long do they make men Duck-leg'd Or why so strained outwith an intollerable weight and waste of Points and Phansies To what end do Boots and Boot-hose Tops appeare in that circumference between our Legs that we are faine to use a wheeling stride and to go as it were in orbe to the no little hindrance of progressive motion which the stradling French basely imitates to the disguises of the foule disease It is a wonderfull testimony of the imbecillity of our judgements that when we have hit of a convenient fashion we cannot keep to it but we must commend and allow of Fashions for the rarenesse or novelty though neither goodnesse nor profit be joyned to them FINIS A Table of the chiefe matters contained in these Scenes Locally disposed according to an Alphabet of the parts of the Body A Armes BLack markes or lists upon the Armes esteemed a great Gallantry 286 Armes oakered and dyed with red blacke white black and yellow Striped like unto panes ibid. Proud women where they paint their Armes 287 Armes branded for love of each other ibid. Many borne without Arms 300 Many borne with 4 Armes ibid. 301 304 Nations with 2 Armes on their right side 301 Many endowed with 6 Armes ibid. A Nation that hath but one Arme 301 302 A child born without Arms 302 A relation of one seen lately in London who was born without Armes and Hands ibid. B Beard BEard-haters 193 202 203 204. What art they use to eradicate and destroy their Beards ibid. Beard-lesse Nations 204 205 Nations with very thin Beards 204 205. Men with Beards like Cats ibid. The plantation of Haire about the mouth and the dignitie of the Beard maâ—ntained and all the Cavils against it answered 193 194 195 206 Where they shave the upper lip only 195 The honour of the Mustacho's or haire on the upper lip vindicated against those who offer this indignity despight to Nature 195 196 197 Uses of Mustacho's 197 Nations that shave the chin and other barball parts and nourish the Mustacho's ibid. or 198 That custome condemned not only as an act of indecency but of injustice and ingratitude against God and Nature ibid. c. 199 200 Cutting off Beards where a punishment 200 201 Where the men weare halfe their Beards shaven the other halfe long ibid. The use of the Beard and the ends to which it naturally serves 206 207 The Beard the sign of a man 208 Lovers of a Beard 209. Nations that affect very long Beards 210 Formall Beards affected 211 Where Batchelours dare not weare a Beard 211 212 Beard diers ibid. The vanity of dyed Beards 213 214 Bearded women 215 216 B Breasts Breasts loathsome lovely-long reaching downe to the wast where esteemed for a goodly thing 310 311 Where they have them under their Waste and unto their knees 310 What force they use to draw out their Breasts to this length 311 Where they cast their Dugs over their shoulders and so the childe sucketh as it hangs ibid. That this is a device contrary to the intention of Nature The inconvenienâ—es attending these goodly sagging Breasts or Pap-fashions ibid. or 313 The proportion of the Breasts in women 312 Natures provision against the flagging of the Breasts so low ibid That they sin against Nature who never tie them up or forcibly draw them out ibid Great Breasts no way commendable 314 A remarkable History of one that had great breasts 313 Very little Breasts affected 316 Cosmeticks allowed contrived by Art to restraine the extuberancy of overgrown Breasts and to reduce them to their naturall proportion ibid. That it is a crime in women not to afford their Breasts to their owne Children 317 Histories of many men having great Breasts bearing out like unto women and that give suck unto their own Children ibid. Male Nurses 318 The businesse of men's having milke in their Breasts and giving suck enquired after and stated 318 319 320 How men come to have milke in their Breasts 320 Whether the Breasts of men were to have any milke in them 320 Whether the Breasts of Men generate milke according unto Natures ibid. The reputation of Nature in this businesse vindicated 321 Right hand Amazons who of old scared off their right Breasts 322 Left handed Amazons who now scare off their left Paps ibid. Their reasons of these Customes 321 322 323 The History of the Amazons no fable 323 These Viragoes taxed for losing the compleate proportion and representation of the Chests Ornament for this unnaturall convenience 324 What penalty they are like to incurre by this mutilation or numericall offence ibid. The Breasts why two and their use 323 The temper of those men who have great Breasts bearing out like women that give suck 324 Where as a singular piece of gallantry the men have their Breasts piersed from one side to another and where they have them both pierced and what they carry therein 325 The absurd Cavill of Momus against Nature for not making a window in the Breast of Man exploded 325 326 The wals of the Breasts depraved by Nurses 327 The inconveniences of straight swathing the Breasts of Children ibid. The Judgement of Physitians against this Custome ibid. The perverse Custome in England of swaithing Children and swathing their Breasts noted 330 The miserable inconveniences occasioned thereby ibid and 331 That Consumptions and the Rickets wherewith we only are molested proceed from this fond Custome 332 333 334 Cautions in ordering Infants 329 The naturall proportion of the Breasts 331 Those Nations commended who desiring rather a broad then a narrow Breast a full then a slender involve rather then swathe their Infants in a light swath-band 336 The opinion of our modern Physitians touching the too soone leaving off of swaâ—th-bands to be the cause of the Rickets 337 The too early coating of Children conceived to be another ibid. The mature time of coating Children 338 The Judgement of our Physitians in reference to the Rickets touching the constant and foolish Fasciation used to Children 332 333 334 Nationall Examples proving that it is a better way to bring up Children without swadling or binding them up in swaith-bands 335 336 That where there is no swaithing there is no news of the Rickets 335 What kinde of swaithing our Climate cals for 336 The pernicious Custome of straight lacing used by our Virgins 338 The mischiefe that ensues by this deadly artifice of reducing the Breasts to such straights 339 340 That
their just and naturall constitution make a Head long short broad accuminate or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 36 That all figures of the Head are not equally naturall as Columbus supposeth 38 That that figure of the Head is naturall which is for the most part which also is commodious to the actions of Nature such being that which constitutes the naturall figure ibid. What naturall benefits they enjoy who have this figure with a decent magnitude ibid. Why this laterally compressed spheare should be the most proper and naturall figure of the head and the finall causes thereof enquired 39 40 41 The Nurses in those nations commended who have been tender in this point of offering violence to nature leaving her free to her own course not using any thing to hinder the naturall growth of the Head 41 A private example of the benefit received by a renunciation of all artificiall contrivance formerly practised on the Head upon imaginary conceits of beauty and generosity 42 A strange History of an artificiall Hydrocephalos 30 31 Horned Nations 28 29 By what art some of them come to have hornes on their Heads 30 Children born with hornes on their Head and men and women cornuted by a disease 28. 29 Bicipites or men with two Heads 31 32 33 The birth of such monsters ever held prodigious 34 The reason of such strange productions ibid. Acephali or headlesse Nations 20 21 22 23 The doubt of their originall resolved and that they are of Adams progeny 24 25 The finall cause of these prodigious apparitions 25 Why such monsters concurre not to the perfection of the universe ibid. A reason given of this monstrous alienation from the humane forme 26 Infants born without Heads ibid. That reason may perswade us that it is not impossible that the instruments of Nature may perform their office although the head be not advanced above the shoulders 26 27 The artifice which is supposed they use to reduce their Heads below their shoulders 27 That the donation of Nature in the use of the Necke is lost by this artifice 27 28 Nations who use art to alter the substance and temper of their Heads 42 Block Heads and Logger Heads where in request ibid. By what severall artifices they purchase this property of a hard head 43 That by the concurrent temper of the Climate and this artifice their sutures doe grow together and are obliterated their skuls growing solid ibid. Soft-heads where a tearme of reproach 42 That it is inconvenient to keep the Head to warm 44 Where the women have the suture Coronalis loose and how they defend it from the injury of the aire The mistake of Celsus affirming these hard-Headed Gallants heads to become hereby more firme and safe from pain moderately expounded by Fallopius 44 45 46 That although they gain a defence against outward injuries more then the ordinary provision of Nature doth afford yet that they thereby become more obnoxions to internall to wit dâ—seases arising from the retention of fuliginous vapours 44 That their thick skuls may render them more indocile and oblivions ib. The justice and wisdome of Nature about Sutures suffering in the opinion of Celsus experimentally vindicated by Columbus 45 46 Haire NAtions esteeming the Hair upon the Head a very great reproach therefore affecting baldnesse 47 48 Where women shave their Heads and not men and are accounted fairest when their heads are shaven 48 49 The Haire maintained an ornament of the Head against those who would have it an abject excrement which Nature never intended for an ornament 49 50 The Haire no extrement and why ibid. The naturall uses of the haire set out 50 51 That they who cut them wholly away doe not onely bring a deformity upon Nature but afford an occasion of defluxions 50 All the waies of decalvation practised by the ancients to the prejudice of Nature condemned 51 Cosmetiques commended as laudable which preserve Haire for the use and intention of Nature ibid. That shaving the Head is a disgrace put upon Nature ibid. That an indeleable character of infamy cleaves to his name who first suffered the Haire of his Head to be shaved ibid. That his wit was misimployed who tooke upon him to commend baldnesse ibid. Nations who shave the foreparts of their Head 53 54 Nations that shave the hinder part of their Head onely ibid. Long dangling Earelocks worne before where a renewed fashion and a pestilent custome 54 Nations who weare their haire long on the right side of their Head and shave the left side ibid. That these men deprive themselves in a manner of halfe the benefit intended them by Nature 55 The vindication of Nature from this affront 57 58 Where the women use to cut their haire and the men weare it long 56 That the Haire was given women for a covering 57 That Haire hanging down by the Cheeks of women of it 's owne Nature is not contrary to the Law of Nature or unlawfull 58 For a woman to be shorne is against the intention of Nature ibid. For men to nourish long haire is quite contrary to the intention of Nature 58 59 60 That such long haire would hinder the actions of common life 60 Tonsure necessary 59 The regulation of the haire of man according to the rules of decorum ibid. 60 What long Haire it is that is repugnant to Nature against her law and above and besides the naturall use 60 The decency of haire stated 62 63 Nations extreamely affecting black Haire 63 64 By what art they make it come so ibid. The practise of blacking gray Haires ridiculous 63 Nations which of old did and at this day doe affect yellow Haire 65 68 By what meanes they introduced this colour ibid. How they were and are punished for this their lasciviousnesse 65 66 67 Tincture of Haire both in men and women a shamefull thing and dishonourable to Nature 66 67 68 69 How the indulgence and licence granted unto women in matters of ornamentall dresses of Haire is to be moderated 69 Painting of Haire an ancient custome with the Indians 68 Inconveniences supposed to happen to women by the affected beauty of the Haire 69 Nations that anoint their Haire 70 The like vanity observed in our gallants ibid. The effeminate powdering of Haire exploded 70 71 Frizling and curling and plating the Hair with hot Irons an old vanity 71 72 Periwigs an ancient vanity 72 73 Hands LIttle Hands where in fashion and accounted a great beauty in women 287 What art they use to have them so ibid. What women are noted to have the least Hands of any women in the World ibid. Nations that paint their Hands red 288 Where they make their Hands of a golden tincture ibid. Hands painted with a tawney colour ibid. Hands painted with flowers and Birds ibid. Monsters borne with 4 Hands 301 Monsters born with three Hands ibid. Nations with two Hands on the right side ibid. Nations with six Hands ibid. Monsters borne with one Hand ibid.
increase of the Noses of their female children ibid. Where when they would make the portaicture of a deformed man they paint him with a long Nose ibid. That this fashion abates somewhat of their sagacity 120 Long Noses where affected 120 121 What art the Midwives there use to make the Nose more faire and longer ibid. The naturall proportion and symetry of the Nose 121 Their trespasse against Nature noted who upon pretence of beauty enlarge or prohibite the naturall extendure of the Nose ibid. Thick and great Nâ—ses where in request 121 122 Caused by an affectation of art ibid. The inconveniences and prejudice to Nature that may follow hereupon 122 123 Where the Inhabitants have all Camoyse or saddle Noses 123 124 125 That all Children are a little Camoise Nosed and why 133 That nature not alwaies needs the officious hands of Midwives in this case as if shee were not able to perfect her own work 134 Where the Midwives are too forward to help Nature in this case 133 Their pragmaticall artifice herein taxed ibid. The inconveniences of saddle Noses 127 An Ape-like Nose condemned 182 Flat plaine and broad Noses where esteemed a great Ornament and the principall part of beauty to consist therein 123 By what artifice their Childrens Noses are brought to this forme ibid. Whether a flat Nose can conferre any beauty to the face 129 A shooing horne-like-Nose where not affected 133 The reasons of the prominency of the Nose asserted 126 What inconveniences would have ensued upon a Nose bread in the spine or back 126 That those Nose Levellers may incurre some inconveniences and prejudice Nature not onely in those actions wherein it is profitable for the bettering of life but in those wherein it is necessary to life it selfe ibid. Whether these Nose-Levellers obtaine their end of advancing the beauty of their Faces 129 130 That a flat Ape-like Nose can never become a mans face 128 Wherein the beauty of the Nose consists 130 The naturall perfection of the Nose in men and women 131 What figure of the Nose agrees with such a face ibid. Where a high aquiline or hawks Nose was and is in request as a note of honour and magnanimity 134 135 That it was an honourable office to looke to the conforming of the Princes Nose to make it as beautifull as might be and crooked like a hawks bill ibid. Mercurialis his conjecture what artifice and instruments they used to conforme the Nose to their desire ibid. A Hawkes-Nose where gentililitious and native ibid. 136 That when there is an ill conformation of the Nostrils it belongs to the corrective part of medicine to reform it 135 A high prominent Nose where affected 1â—6 Nations who in a bravery and as an ensigne of nobility and greatnesse bore holes in their Noses wearing Nose-Jewels therein 137 13â— That foolish fashion of Nose Jewels exploded 139 140 Where they have markes on their Noses made for a bravery 138 How they make them ibid. That their invention was much put to it who first bored the Nose to introduce a fashion 139 That such an invention is to the prejudice of natures Nasall operations 140 Where they stick pins on their Noses 138 Wherein the beauty of the Nose consists 139 P Privy-parts VVHere they were in their yards betwixt the skin and the flesh Bels of Gold silver or brasse as big as nuts 347 348 A description of these yard bals 349 How and when they put them in 347 348 Why they were invented 348 This invention where it might be usefull against Sodomy 350 Absurd projects of women to gaine regard 351 Where it was a custome to fasten a Ring or Buckle on the foreskin of their Yard and for what ends 352 The art of infibulation or butning up the Prepuce with a brasse or silver button and whence it came 353 Where they we are rings in their Yards ibid. Where they trusse up their Genitals within their body ibid. Their ends of this Custome 354 Semi-Eunuchs or men with one stone one being alwaies taken from them by their Nurses 354 Men with three stones ibid. Whether the testicles be required to the forming of the voice 355 Who was the first that caused young male children to be made Eunuches 354 The reasons and ends of introducing Eunuchisme ibid. and 356 How many waies there are of this uÌ„natural dilapidatioÌ„ of the body 3â—9 The time of making Eunuches 360 That the name Eunuch is but a cloake wherewith they cover the injury done to nature 357 The first rise of the reputation of such Semi-virs or halfe men ibid. The story of Gombalus ibid. Where they sell their children to be made Eunuches 359 Religious Eunuchs 358 The reason of their castration ibid. Where Eunuches who have religious women in keeping because they shall not be loved have also their noses and lips cut off 357 Eunuches by a totall deprivation of their Genitals why first made 359 Where such Eunuches are in great request 360 Stories of many that have castrated themselves 356 357 358 359 This kind of operation very improper for Physitians and why 359 That Castration is high treason against Nature ibid. What deformity Castration introduces upon the body of man 363 In what cases a dispensation may be granted for Eunuches 362 Who was the first that made women Eunuches 363 Whether women may be castrated 364 The manner of operation and danger thereof ibid. A History of a maid spaded in Lincolneshire 364 365 Another History of one spaded a new way ibid. Riolanus his opinion of the ancient way of operation ibid. What Nations Circumcise the Prepuce of their Yard 366 The naturall ends they propounded therein ibid. Where women have the office of excising men 372 The reasons alleadged for the Judaicall Circumcision 368 379 That they who were Circumcised might make themselves uncircumcised ibid. Who was first thought to have practised this 369 The cure of a prepuce made short by Circumcision ibid. The manner of Circumcision with the modern Jewes ibid. Mahometan Circumcision 370 The difference of the Mahometans and Jews Circumcision 371 The manner of Circumcision at Ginney and Binney 372 A History of Circumcision at Ginney 373 Priviledges affected in Circumcision 374 The inconveniences of Circumcision 377 The injury of Circumcision ib. 378 That one may be born circumcised by nature 368 369 The naturall uses of the prepuce according to Anatomists 376 The pretences of those who use circumcision for a naturall end exploded 377 The danger of judaicall circumcision 379 380 That circumcision is directly against the honesty of Nature 379 That if there had not been some figurative meaning in Circumcision it would have been a most absurd and unreasonable thing For if God would have had onely the foreskin cut off he had from the beginning made man without a prepuce 379 Circumcised Christians 367 In what cases for a naturall end circumcision is onely permitted 362 A new way of Circumcising men by way of strangulation