CHAPTER XVI

Whether by Witchcraft and Devil’s Work the Sexes can be Interchanged.
Argument.
es GEMMA inquires into the mutation of the feminine into the masculine sex, and the masculine into the feminine, which is
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admitted by modern physicians to be natural. We read of many women who have become men. Hippocrates writes that at Abdera Phaetula, the wife of Pitheus, had borne him children; but when her husband was sent into exile, after a few months her menstrual courses ceased, and she was smitten with terrible pains all over her body, and acquired the physical features of a man. He says that the same thing happened to Anamisia, the wife of Gorgippus, at Thasos. Livy tells the same story in