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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    | | i 9 ) ‘) ] vy 2 | | / | | The Artificial Changeling. 251 pofed according to nature , and asco theufe 5. Has bit, and conftiution of thofe members, and fo to conferr with char what is to be judged ; For, thar which is beft organized and conf¥ituted according to Nature, is juftly faid to be the proper Meafure, Rule, and Index of all others of that kinde 3. for although thefe two bodies exift in the fame Species they are yet divers , one from another 5 and there. fore ought to have different meafures + if therefore the body of Woman feem unproportioned,compar- ed to the body of man , fo will the body of man ap- pear defective in its Symetry if compared with the woman which affords a fufficient convi@ion of this errour in the Mathematiques and laws of Symetry. Some have taken upon them an Art which pre- tends tonew-make a man decaied by Age ; their way is,to cut a man in pieces, and then put him in- to a Purrifa@ory Veflel, which they report the: Marquefle of Villena refolv’d to prattice upon himfelf. But Campanella dares-not trutt fo great a work toan artificial Veflel, and to Spirits gOt- ten by Putrifaction ; and indeed (faith he ) in again{t it, not enduring a regrefle from a privation toa habit: and the fable of the Recreation of old father 72/07 in Ovid is as yain. Cardan™ writes, that one may naake Dwarfs, even as we make little Dogs for women to play with; for they will be engendred of a little Father and Mother, then let them be girt in with Swaith= bands very ftri@ly , and bred up. with a fpare diet; And would to God ( faith -he ) this inven. tion were as. profitable as facile. + Ariffotle en- quiring the reafon why men become of a dwarfth ftature, he faies, there may be adouble caufe ren- dfed.thereof; for either the place, or the aliment does > OG ee ais .: