204 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



duration of life, nor comfortable adaptation to it. So are the 

 ndulai types. No sharp line can be drawn between the 

 normal and the abnormal in any case, the borderland is wide, 

 the transitions many. 



The skin is one of the chief clues to the adrenal personality. 

 The relation between the adrenal and the slcin dates way back 

 in the evolutionary scale, for adrenalin has been isolated directly 

 from pigment deposits in the epidermis of frogs. Skin pigment 

 bears a direct relation to the reaction of the organism to light, 

 especially the ultraviolet rays, to the radiation of heat, and 

 hence to the fundamental productions and consumptions of energy 

 by the cells. So the gland of energy for emergencies writes its 

 signature always all over the skin. 



In an adrenal personality, the epidermis is always slightly, 

 somewhat, or deeply pigmented. The pigmentation is due to a 

 dark brown deposit lightly or thickly scattered over the skin. 

 With the general diffuse pigmentation or darkening there are 

 often the black spots, the pigmented birth marks, or the lighter 

 ones of freckles. The latter signify some permanent or transi- 

 tory adrenal inadequacy in the past, ante-natal or post-: 

 of the individual, and presage the same in his future. These 

 spots have been frequently observed to appear after an attack of 

 diphtheria or influenza. There seems to be more tuberculosis 

 among those who have them than those who do not. We there- 

 fore say that diphtheria, influenza and tuberculosis stand out as 

 adrenal-attacking diseases, which have a greater power to kill, 

 cripple or hurt those with defective adrenal constitutions than 

 others. 



The hair of the adrenal type is characteristic: ubiquitous, 

 thick, coarSe and dry. It is prominent over the cl 

 and back, and has a tendency to kink. Of' lor i^ n< 



ted: an Italian's will be yellow, a Norwegian's jet black. It 

 has been stated that most red-haired persons • 

 Such persons also have well-marked canine teeth which I 

 adr< it They also have a low hair lin 



When t! ;i property oo-operating pituitary 



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combination, he develops into 



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al type. fag is closely associated with, if n< 



