224 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



cases of suicide by one observer showed that the status lympha- 



18 was practically constant and often pronounced. 

 Certain of them, after a stormy life in the twenties, become 

 adapted to their surroundings in the thirties because the pituitary 

 gradually emerges and becomes dominant in their personalities. 

 They are then recessive thymocentrics. An increase in size, a 

 broadening, together with a greater mental tranquillity and 

 stability, accompany the adaptation. Historically, the thymo- 

 centrics who combined brilliancy and instability played a great 

 part as some of the famous adventurers and restless experimen- 

 talists. 



The Sex Gland Centered or Gonado-Centric Personalities 



(The Eunuchoid Personality) 



Among the individuals whose personality is dominated by their 

 sex glands the physiognomy, physique and life reactions are so 

 distinctive that no better examples exist of our main thesis: that 

 the whole life of man is controlled primarily by his internal 

 secretions. These gonado-centric types are not all necessarily 

 sex gland deficient, as the term eunuchoid implies. They m 

 rather gonad unstable with a corresponding instability of the 

 entire endocrine system. 



About the face of the eunuchoid the striking feature is the 

 incomplete, irregular, or absent hair development. Below thirty 

 it is chubby and ruddy, and rather childish in its texture; after 

 thirty, there is an effect of premature senility: the skin is yellow- 

 ish, leathery, and wrinkled as the faces of old women are 

 wrinkled: the upper lip is traversed by vertical wrinkles, and 

 wrinkles come around corners of the mouth. Tin ion is 



Qf plaint ! 



Invariably the voice is higher pitched than the usual masculine 

 tones. It may be gentle and subdued, like 



nt and rasping. Occasionally it is a pleasant high ' 



Adam's apple, poetic popular name for the thyroid cartilage, 

 is never prominent, b is nut ossified, as it should be in 



the normal mi 



1 and slender, or generally undersized. the muscles are soft 



and flabby as a The hands and f< 



Viewed in profile, the lines of the bodj 



I may ret lie of the female's 



