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plaints about them more bitter because the pituitary now, in 

 addition to its own burden, had to compensate for the insufficient 

 adrenals. So "his frequent illness made him more and more a 

 subject of treatment and commiseration. ... If only my eyes 

 would hold out ... it seems to me at the age of 30 as if I had 

 lived 60 years . . . very frequent sufferings of stomach, head and 

 eyes . . . acidity oppresses me, and everything except the tender- 

 est food becomes acid. ... I cannot doubt that I am the victim 

 of a serious cerebral disease, and that stomach and eyes suffer 

 only from this central cause . . . half-dead with pain and ex- 

 haustion." In December 1888, he fell, had to be helped horn 

 silent for two days, then became loud, active and unbalanced. 

 The attack was preceded by the drinking of much water. 



The specific quality of the Nietzsche genius also directs atten- 

 tion to a pituitocentric, to a pituitocentric in whom both ante- 

 pituitary and post-pituitary are extraordinarily well-functioning, 

 but are in a state of unbalance in which the post-pituitary gets 

 the upper hand. Now, as we have seen, the post-pituitary makes 

 for that instability of association between the brain cells which 

 must be at the bottom of originality and creative thought, as well 

 as of phobias, obsessions, hysterias and hallucinations. Persons 

 in whom the post-pituitary predominates have a lively fancy and 

 are liable to suffer from the tricks of association. Nietzsche, as 

 we have noted, was poor in mathematics and in the calm cool 

 proportioned forward march of scientific thought in general. His 

 most brilliant ideas came to him in flashes and gleams. That is 

 why so much of his work has come down to us in the form of 

 aphorisms and paragraphs. He was, essentially, a poet : 

 the metaphysicians, which again favors the conception of him 

 as a pituitary-centered with a dominant post-pit nit ary. Y 

 incisive critical faculty, as well as his love of music, also doou- 

 I the supernormal ante-pituitary. 



To sum up, the physique and physiognomy of N 

 migraine which i him, his 



i dislikes, his tastes, abilities and accomplishment 

 lowed from hi-' compo e pit nit :t i ed, with 



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