A mechanical and critical enquiry into the nature of hermaphroditesParsons, James
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A mechanical and critical enquiry into the nature of hermaphrodites
Parsons, James
Intersexuality -- Early works to 1800
‘Fæmina virque simul veneris quum germina miscent,
Venis informans diverso ex semine virtus
Temperiem servans bene condita corpora fingit;
Nam si virtutes permixto semine pugnent,
Nec faciant uno permixto in corpore, diræ
Nascentem gemino vexabunt corpore sexum.’
[57] Paraph. in Aristot. in 4. gen. animal. 4.
[58] ‘Quæ autem genitalia gemina habent; maris unum fæminæ alterum, causa
est ejusmodi generis.’
[59] In Com. de præcip. divin. gen. Tit. Tetrascopia sive lib. 15.
[60] ‘Si perficiendis duobus, materia deficiat, uni tamen redundet;
format vis διαπλαστικη, præter naturæ præscriptum, membra plura non
necessaria.’
[61] ‘Hoc modo Hermaphroditi & Androgyni generantur, quibus membra
sexus utriusque insunt; etsi, e duobus alterum fere imbecillum, atque
inefficax; & contingit nonnunquam alterum mutari, vel prorsus aboleri.’
[62] Lib. 1. de reb. cœlestib. c. 6.
[63] ‘Volunt autem calorem à quo existat generatio, moderatum illum
quidem esse, & sua quadam certaque mensura contineri, urere autem, ac
supra quam, generatio ipsa exigat, exsiccare, ubi vehementior fuerit,
adversarique propterea generationi.’
[64] ‘Etsi è duobus, alter fere sit imbecillis,’ _&c._
[65] ‘Hæc igitur agens vis illa, & procreans, cum æquabiliter sese ad
alterutrum habuerit, ut aut prorsus superet, aut ut rursus superetur,
eodem, quidem aut virili, aut muliebri sexu fæminas nasci, at ubi partim
vicerit, partim succubuerit, tunc in diversum, rem geri, atque alterum
marem, alteram fæminam gigni.’
[66] ‘Natura in hominum omnino genere marem discernit à fæmina, itaque in
eodem simul corpore uterque sexus, suo gradu, nequit consistere.’
[67] 2. Phys. Tr. 2. c. 3. de Animal. l. 18.
[68] ‘Hermaphroditos fieri si qualitates contrariæ conjungantur quarum
utraque sit complexionalis & terminans, & virtus formativa satisfacere
potest utrique sexui, tam in membris exterioribus, quam in membris
interioribus.’
[69] The Existence of these Cells is contradicted under _Domini
Terrcellius_, which see.
[70] Sanflorus in Thes. Aristot. l. 12. c. 3.
[71] ‘Quia natura intendit semper generare masculum, & nunquam femellam,
quia femella est vir occasione natus & monstrum in natura, quia
aliquando generetur masculus quoad omnia membra principalia, sed tamen
propter malam dispositionem Matricis, & objecti, & secundum seminis
inæqualitatem, cum non possit perficere Masculum perfectum, sic generat
femellam aut Hermaphroditem.’
[72] De Civit. Dei, l. 16. c. 8.
[73] ‘Ex illo protoplasto uno originem ducere.’
[74] ‘Qualis autem ratio redditur de monstrosis apud nos hominum
partubus, talis de monstrosis quibusdam gentibus reddi potest. Deus
enim creator est omnium, qui ubi & quando, creari quid oporteat, vel
oportuerit ipse novit, _&c._’
[75] Aventures de _Jaques Sadeur_,—he fictitiously wrote that he was
driven to _Terra Australis_, and that the Inhabitants were of both Sexes;
see more of him in the General Diction. Tom. IX. p. 10.
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