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and prominent. The mouth shows a high arched palate and 

 crowded teeth rather long. The voice is high-pitched. One rec- 

 ognizes the tra ditional womanly woman, petite and chic, who 

 always marries the hero in ston lly fond of chil- 



dren, easily moved, has a good libido, and the traditional 

 feminine traits. When unstable, the post -pituitary type is rest- 

 less and hyperactive, craves excitement, and continual chajQgf 

 interest and scene, a new pleasure every moment. A good many 

 of the women of today, who fifty years ago would have 1 

 nice sedate girls because of their excellent post-pituitary con 

 tution, have been irritated by the atmosphere of post-1914 into 

 the excess post-pituitary state, the adventurous never-satiated 

 avid pleasure hunter, in whom the craving for stimulation will 

 stop at nothing. F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed an exquisite speci- 

 men of the kind in his short story 'The Jellybean," with a quasi- 

 heroine of a good Southern family, built to be a high standard 

 wife and mother, who drinks, swears, gambles, and finally marries 

 on a dare. Modern ppst^pituitary woman is excitement mad and 

 thrill chasing. The worst of it is that the resultant personal 

 s cannot be dismissed as transient inevitables. The 

 heredity of the internal secretions determines that the offspring 

 of tl i are bound to be pituitary unstable, tl 



desirable of endocrine instabilities because of the concomitant 



ital effect s. Even from the purely selfish point of view, the 



adpoint of enlightened selfishness, the post-pituitary type must 

 beware of excesses. For disturbances of menstruation, psychic 

 fears, anxieties, states of suspicion and obsession, various pains 



among the penalties. 

 A period of post -pituitary excess as an effect of d preg- 



ICJT, or the rapid life, may be followed by post-pituit 

 deficiency as a result of exhaustion of the gland. The girl or 

 woman then becom* ,<1 suffers from 1 a (the fair, 



and forty type) yet retains a certain capacity lor enjoyment 

 which enables her to continue gay, happy and gentle, kind, in' 

 eeted. So she contrasts with the thyroid deficient who gets i 

 IfO dull, stupid, even moi 



CUline pjtujj QQaJity, (he man with a dominant 



anterior pit with plenty of 



lly tall 



leu the growth of the Kong 1>< rly by a 



social pi ofthete8tes) with a well- 



