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Engraving from the book of Ambroise Pare: “” Monsters and Wonders””” (1573) - Excerpts from...

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Engraving from the book of Ambroise Pare: “” Monsters and Wonders””” (1573) - Excerpts from the text: “” Hippocrates on the generation of monsters says that if there is too much seed, there will be a large number of portees or a monstrous child with superfluous and unnecessary parts such as two heads, four arms or legs, six fingers of hands and feet or other things. On the contrary, if the seed fails in quantity, some limb will be defective, like having only one hand, no arm, or feet, or head, or other defaillant part. [...] Jovianus Pontanus writes that in the year 1529, the ninth of January, there was seen in Germany a male child with four arms and four legs, of whom you see here the portrait.
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Engraving from the book of Ambroise Pare: “” Monsters and Wonders””” (1573) - Excerpts from the text: “” Hippocrates on the generation of monsters says that if there is too much seed, there will be many portees or a monstrous child with superfluous and useless parts such as two heads, four arms or legs, six fingers of hands and feet or other things. On the contrary, if the seed fails in quantity, some limb will be defective, like having only one hand, no arm, or feet, or head, or other defaillant part. [...] Jovianus Pontanus writes that in the year 1529, the ninth of January, there was seen in Germany a male child with four arms and four legs, of whom you see here the portrait.

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