232 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



In the second place he belongs among the moderns. Modern 

 science and methods of observation have had their chance at him, 

 and have left a conscious record of their results. Napoleon was 

 the central figure of his time, and was watched by trained medical 

 eyes during his life, and after his death. Protocols of the exami- 

 nation of his body are accessible, and Napoleonic specimens, pre- 

 served by fixing agents, may still be viewed at the Museum of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, England. Dr. Leonard Guthrie has 

 worked up the material at hand in a report which he presented 

 to the historical section of the International Congress of Medi- 

 cine, in London in 1913. I propose to relate his findings to some 

 other facts and the general principles roughly sketched in this 

 book. 



There are a number of word portraits of Napoleon extant. But 

 for our purposes certain of the notable features of his face and 

 physique are to be considered. The first characteristic that struck 

 everyone about him was the matter of his height. He was defi- 

 nitely sub-average, at death being about five feet six inches in 

 height. As has been emphasized several times, deficiency or ex- 

 cess of growth will always direct attention to the pituitary. I lis 

 sharply outlined features and a powerful lower jaw, combined 

 with oddly small plump hands, long straight black hair, and dark 

 complexion, all point to the pituitary, with a secondary adrenal 

 effect. His pulse was slow, according to Corvisart, his per 

 physician, rarely above 50 to the minute. His s^ial life, his 

 libido, was abnormal. Curiously explosive in their appearance 

 and manifestations were his sexual impulses. They "beset him on 

 occasions which were sometimes inconvenient, and a peculiarity 

 about them was that they subsided with equal suddcnm m if not 

 immediately gratified, or if meanwhile something occurred to dis- 

 ^e his attention. All women were to him 'lilies de 

 1 rather than social attractions in women app him." 



He was never in love, never possessed of | 



rness for any woman. This ex periodicity oi 



1 life, "with a tendency to compression of it to the m 

 < al," is another mark of some pitn 

 aliticfl. 



nicna that persisted throughout I thlOW 



Motion. Qn tth his 



told Autumn. 

 him aa long as I • OOUM Irritability i 



unounccd that he could not sleep for more than a few hours 



