80 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



conception, the great American disease — dementia americana — 

 is seen to be adrenal disease — and the American life to be the 

 adrenal life, often making too great demands upon that life, and 

 so breaking down with it. 



Adrenal Excess 



The converse of adrenal insufficiency, that of adrenal excess, 

 also exists. In certain types of the middle-aged, "a high blood 

 pressure, accompanied by a great capacity for work, has been 

 shown to be associated with hypertrophy of the cortex. In women, 

 there is a degree of masculinity, as the adrenal in women makes 

 for masculinity, neutralising more or less the specifically femi- 

 nine influences of the internal secretions of the ovary. Such 

 women possess a vigor and energy above the normal, and com- 

 mand responsible positions in society, not only among their own 

 sex, but also among men. They are the ones who, in the present 

 overturn of the traditional sex relationships, will become the 

 professional politicians, bankers, captains of industry, and di- 

 rectors of affairs in general. 



The Gonads 



(Sexual, Puberty or Interstitial Glands) 



— - The gonads is the name applied to the generative or repro- 

 ductive glands considered collectively. In the male, they are the 



__ testes; in the female, the ovaries. They are, therefore, sometimes 



^ called the sexual glands. As they possess definite canals for the 

 removal of their gross secretion, the specific reproductive cells, 



- ova or spermatozoa, to a surface of the body, they are first of all 

 glands of external secretion. But they have been also found to 

 hold secretory cells not concerned with the making of the repro- 

 ductive corpuscles, but, as all the evidence indicates, with the 

 manufacture of an internal secretion. These interstitial cells form 

 the interstitial gland. A classic example of a gland of internal 

 secretion lodged in the interstices of a gland of external secretion 

 is thus furnished by the gonads. 



Origin of Sex Traits 



WW history of sex goes back far in the scheme of life. The 

 immortality of the ameba was at one time one of the indisput- 



