Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of the most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.

  • John Bulwer
Date:
1650
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Credit: Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of the most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    table covering, burft or broke a funder, Veflineus who hath vif fibly exhibited the Hymen to chafte mindes, as it is obferved in marriageable Virgins; ; and Pafants! hath deferibed the form alfo of this: extraordinary membrane. After ali which ocular dcemonftrations, I cannot but wonder at the ftrange diffention of fone other Anatomifts, who al- though they allow a Hymen or Virginal Flower, will have it €0 confit of foure caruncles, placed in He midle of the Neck of the Wombe , in manner ofa crown; and in ae rgins by the intervention (untill they be forced afunder in devirginaticn) of little Fibres area ue interwoven and wrinckled together, yet preforated as the other... Among: wort Lodovicus Gardinius in In Stitut. enrer’d his diffent thus: To fay that any skin placed oyer- thwart in the midft of the neck of the Wombe, which fhou!d make the Neck shaper vicus ; fhoul be the Hymen, is sledeaitier fabulous, or at leaft is fo befides the order of Nature;as the fring s,whi ch fometimes againft nature is ingendred under th Tongue of sist to be took ay What 2 prodigious conceit whom nothing in the ordi: nary courfe c would farisfie , but the muft needs cree a his call’'d Spor wS, cut, and made ( forfoo man, to whom | he was fo] emnly 1 married whic cafioned fome juftly to fay , that it had been he ppy for the Comn on- weal Ith , if een 11145 his ra er sis ad no other but {uch a Wife. Of the natural change of ms humane Sex, where women have (tcmd to be chai: gcd into men , you May | finde ere many Histor ies both in Schclale ie lib. 4. obf¢ avd im Kornmanus lib. de neat vivorum, adi Tulpius is Ob/. one moft f able , which bath onely funk with them who > Were ovOV ane ig U1 dite