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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 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.

  • J. B. (John Bulwer), 1606-1656.
Date:
1653
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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 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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    Faces* For by their powdered Heads,you would take them to be Meal-men. ’Tis a great benefit of Nature to to haze the liberty of a free tranfpiration, whereby through the curious emunffions of the pores, floe doth conflantly emitt and disburden her felfe of fuperfluous evaporations, ivhich otherwife we may well think,thofe [ewers being llockt and choakt up with that fweet ar- tificiall duff, conglomerated into dirt, by the furious afling of their fiery Frames, may in time cliff olve in dtflillations, and (if not obfufcate their inventions, when they have a difpofition to court their Mifirejjes, with fome rare Piece of Pofie) find a pafjage to their Lungs, and cacexicate their pretty Corpufculums, if not in time make way for a Conf umption. And befides the oppilation of thcfe invifiile perforations, thrcuoh which Nature is wont to wire-draw [pare humours into a fine excrefcency for a [implement all hand fame Ornament, it is to be doubted the old flock too,by vici¬ nity after a while, grow putrid and fall away, and then they will either looke like pill d Ewes, or elfe mu ft put on a beaflly thing call'd a Perriwigg, and make their Friends put a worfe interpretation upon the matter, then there may be caufe 5 indeed one ad¬ vantage they may happily have by this artifice, that by oftenfwealing and new dredging their Heads, for recruitt, in fhort time their Heads may grow fowell fiockt in fix footed Cattell, that they need not be to leek at. any time of a medicine for the Jaundies. Frilling and curling of Haire with hot Irons, which ^as lacelY much in fafhion with us, an artificial affe&ation in imitation of a natural! bufh of Haire, was in praftife among the Romans. M Cum