234 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



military education Napoleon had, and the character of the Revo- 

 lution into which he was plunged, and we have the conditions out 

 of which his career emerged as inevitable. 



That it was his pituitary which first failed him, rather than 

 the thyroid or adrenal, which might have, is demonstrated by a 

 number of considerations. Before he made himself Emperor, it 

 was noticed that he was becoming fat, a pituitary symptom. A 

 comparison of portraits at different stages of his rise and fall 

 shows an increasing abdominal paunch, and a laying down i 

 in the pituitary areas, around the hips, the legs and so on. The 

 beginning of weakness in judgment that he was to exhibit soon in 

 the invasion of Russia manifested itself at the same time. His 

 keen calculating ability attained the peak of its curve at Auster- 

 litz, Jena and Friedland. Thereafter, the descent begins. A 

 rash, grandiose, speculative quality enters his projects, and 

 divorces the elaborate coordination of means and end from his 

 That his thyroid energy capacity did not fail him is 

 indicated by the fact that at St. Albans he would ride for three 

 hours at the end of the day to tire himself sufficiently for sleep. 

 That his adrenals were not affected is indicated by the brutality 

 which remained characteristic to the end of his life. 



The findings after death confirm the view of him as an um 

 pituitocentric who succumbed to pituitary insufficiency toward 

 the latter half of his life. We possess the account of tin 

 mortem by Dr. Henry, who performed it. "The whole surface 

 of the body was deeply covered with fat. Over the sternum, 

 where generally the bone is very superficial, the fat was up 

 of an inch deep, and an inch and a half or two inches on the 

 abdomen. There was scarcely any hair on tin- body, and that 

 of the head was thin, fine and silky. The whole g 



small) seemed to exhibit a physical cause for (! 

 ml the chastity which had 1« 

 char: iring hit The 



iraa noticed U>b< me and delicate as wire tin I 



and aflllf. Indeed the whole bod;. 



i pubis much resembled t 1 in women. 



muscles of tl.< now and 



in other vrorda, the typical feminization of the 



i liiici. nry was found. He 



i f a cancer of th( i. Bui I new 



mental ■•■» ed d« 



