160 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



ked by the placenta. Depending upon where in the internal 

 •ion chain the weak point, the Achilles 1 bed spot, will be 

 found, the nature of the reaction will vary. And even after 

 labor, after the explosive crisis, so much of the endocrine 



consumed, that an actual mania or a chronic 

 B may come in its wake, 

 the placental secretion must not be looked upon as some- 

 thing wholly evil in its potentialities. Without enough of it 

 to hold the uterus stimulating endocrines, particularly the post- 

 pituitary, in check, still-birth results. If there is enough, and 

 not too much of it, the woman will not feel ill at all, or perhaps 

 only transiently, but will be possessed of a curious feeling of 

 drowsy content and passive, relaxed happiness. Let there be 

 relatively too much of it, too little of the other glands, and the 

 grosser transfigurations and ailments of the child-bearing period 

 follow. 



The Mammary Glands 



Once pregnancy is terminated by labor, the placenta is expelled 

 from the body as the after-birth. The placenta remo\ 

 arrangement of the balance of power among the endocrines be- 

 comes necessary. But a new-comer appears upon the 



up the function left vacant by the absent placenta. This 

 new-comer is the secretion of the activated breasts, the inam- 

 glands. They make for a persistence of the state of 

 equilibrium among the endocrim 1 during pregnan 



The I ry glandfl arc typical glandfl of external 



They I ie milk and pour it out of the breasts through little 



the mouth of the suckling. Yet evid 

 to conclude thai bl i glands of inter! bion, that 



r the 

 loss of that of the placenta but not qu 



What Beams to happen in fact, is this; pus hit* u 



rmani cells of the mammary gland 

 daring puberty, but latent until t ; We 



lutcum will I <>phy 



of the hrcasts. '1 roduced regularly during 



the mens* , >f the 



breasts. with the 



tivity 



