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Title: Tractus de Hermaphrodites

Author: Giles Jacob

Release Date: October 1, 2004 [EBook #13569]

Language: English

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=_Tractatus de Hermaphroditis_:=

=OR, A=

=TREATISE=

=OF=

=HERMAPHRODITES,=

=CONTAINING=

I. A Description of the several Sorts of HERMAPHRODITES, and how the
Law regards them in respect to Matrimony.

II. Intrigues of HERMAPHRODITES and Masculine FEMALES, and of the
outward Marks to distinguish them.

III. The material Cause and Generation of HERMAPHRODITES, of
unnatural BIRTHS, Generation of MONSTERS, extraordinary CONCEPTIONS,
&c.

=_LONDON_:=

=Printed for E. CURLL _Fleet-street_.=

=MDCCXVIII.=

PREFACE.

_Prefaces now a Days are rather Apologies for the Works to which they
are prefix'd, than written for Instruction; and generally a ludicrous
Scene is expected, if the Performance be of an airy Nature; or, if not,
at least an introductory Specimen of what the Reader may hope for in the
Body of the Work_.

_I shall make no Apology for my Subject, notwithstanding an impudent
Libeller has endeavour'd to load Authors and Publishers of Works of
this Nature with the utmost Infamy; and herein I admire at the Front of
the Fellow, to pretend to Chastise others for Writing only, when he
practises a great deal more Iniquity than any Book extant can prompt him
to, every Day that comes over his Head_.

MY _Design in the following Sheets is meerly as an innocent
Entertainment for all curious Persons, without any Views of inciting
Masculine-Females to Amorous Tryals with their own Sex; and I am
perswaded there will not be one single_ HERMAPHRODITE _the more in the
World, on account of the publishing this_ TREATISE.

IT _may be expected by some faithless Persons, that I should produce
an_ HERMAPHRODITE _to publick View, as an incontestible Justification of
there being Humane Creatures of this kind; but as I have no Aut