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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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    0^7^484 Man Tramform'd: O £ dTrk\* they are arc nour^1cc^ wich an aliment ^ familiar & agreeable unco them,fccing that in Tick men the humours and aliment received, through heat and the drineife of the body become dry, the bones are extended in length, and by rcafon of the fomewhat dry nourilhment, they gaine fome ad¬ vantage in ftature, efpecially when man is in i'uch an age wherein his body ( as foft and du&ile jj Potters clay) may be formed and produced in length. Remarkable examples of this truth are to be found $ for they have been feen whom a Quartan-Ague hath railed into a Giant-like bulk and ftature. Spigelius hath a ftory of one Antho¬ ny of Antwerp, who lived in his time, who being borne a little and weake Infant, of a fudden, through a difeafe, became a great Giant. Such with the Greeks are called ^Kr^iKot, in whom I there lies hid the Seminary of a difeafe, which cals forth a prodigious augmentation, with an un¬ timely death. Salamine the fon of Euthemen, in three yeares grew up to the height of three cubits, as Pliny reports. In like manner a fon of Cornelius Tacitus, the Noble Hiftorian, died young. Every man hath a certaine and determinate time fet to 1 his growth, wherein by degrees and tacite aug¬ mentations he attaineth either to a legitimate or I Dwarfifh ftature j and that power of encreafing whereby the body happens to be enlarged in Ion- I gitude, is feldome produced beyond the five and twentieth yeare, but for thegreateft part is ter¬ minated within one and twenty yeares j but to |l grow fat, and cor pulent,happens not to be done in certaine fpaces of time, but by reafon of nutri- I ment when it is plentifully taken in3 which may |