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have rendered available almost a direct view of the sella turcica. 



In the first place, the bony box may be definitely too small to 

 start in with. That means a small jmd sqjDptentially inadequate 

 pituitary, both anterior and posterior, potentially inadequate in 

 that it will become impossible.Ior iLio grow and produce extra 

 secretion upon demand.. Handicapped thus, the unfortunate so 

 born is doomed to inferiority and very little can be done for him. 

 He will not develop satisfactorily. He possesses small ^genital 

 organs which will not evolve properly in adolescence, or if they 

 will not stand still, tend to revert to the opposite sex type. Then 

 he tends to be dwarfed, fatigable, adipose. Among these types 

 are included subjects of obsessions and compulsions who are dull 

 and apathetic, cannot learn or maintain inhibitions, and so, with- 

 out initiative, evolve into moral and .intellectual degenerates, 

 liable to epilepsy and the most remarkable sex aberrations. All 

 because a cranny of the skull, about the size of a thimble, is not 

 large enough for their dominating gland. 



If the bone of the cavity of the pituitary is softer and yielding, 

 so that some enlargement of the gland is possible, especially of 

 the anterior, there appear rapid growth with a tendency to high 

 blood pressure, great mental, activity associated with frequent and 

 severe headaches (often of the migraine type), a combination of 

 initiative and irritability and a marked sexuality. X-ray exam- 

 ination of the sella turcica shows what is called erosion of the 

 bone as it yields to the pressure of the growing gland. 



The ideal sella turcica for the ideal pituitary type is a large 

 room in which the gland may grow and reach its maximunTsize 

 and so its maximum function, without needing to exert pressure 

 or destroy and erode bone in front of it, to the side of it or be- 

 hind it. The distinctive masculine_ and feminine types,_dassed 

 asj/he_ normal^ belong to ^is_ group. Sometimes, the bone in 

 front of the pituitary will yield, while the one in the rear will not, 

 and sometimes the conditions are reversed. Thus we may have 

 ante-pituitary sufficiency with post-pituitary insufficiency, or 

 ante-pituitary insufficiency with post-pituitary sufficiency, com- 

 plexes which contribute to create the grosser functional hermaph- 

 rodite types of mixed sex. 



In the average feminine pituitary type of personality, post- 

 pituitary dominates. In a woman and to a lesser degree in a man, 

 the general_buildjs slight a^irather delicate. The skin is soft, 

 moist, and hairless, the face is the doll or ; Dresden China sort, 

 with a roseate or creamy complexion, flushing easily, eyes large 



