As for the mutation of ſexes, or tranſition into one another, we cannot deny it in Hares, it being obſervable in man: for hereof beſide Empedocles or Tireſias, there are not a few examples; and though very few, or rather none which have emaſculated or turned [into] women, yet very many who from an eſteem or reallity of being women have infallibly proved men: […] But ſurely it much impeacheth this iterated tranſexion of Hares [from female to male back to female, ad infinitum], if that be true which Cardan and other Phyſitians affirm, that Tranſmutation of ſex is only ſo in opinion, and that theſe transfeminated perſons were really men at firſt, although ſucceeding yeares produced the manifeſto or evidence of their virilities; which although intended and formed, was not at firſt excluded, and that the examples hereof have undergone no reall or new tranſexion, but were Androgynally borne, and under ſome kind of Hermaphrodites: […]
