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De monstrorum caussis, natura, et differentiis
Among interesting works catalogued this week is this remarkable work on monsters published in Padua in 1634 by Paulus Frambottus.
The author Fortunius Licetus, a physiologus or medical researcher, offers to tell the reader about such deviations from the natural order as women becoming men, a sow who gave birth to a human head, hermaphrodites, the remarkable fertility of castrated persons, a boy who turned to stone and ‘many other remarkable things’.
