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bath would polish his epidermis, for his satisfaction, until it 

 mbled alabaster or marble. 



Caesar was not the kind of great man that Darwin was, and 

 only a rather muddled careerist because he had too much adrenal 



1 post-pituitary. But he was pituitocentric of a certain t\ 

 We possess no authentic portraits or busts of him to go by. But 

 the bust in the Museum of Naples, for which he probably 

 (some, H. G. Wells among them, will not accept this) , presents 

 the sort of face that is often seen in pituitary epileptics, and the 

 features and skull of a pituitocentric: long, large, well-modeled 

 head eyebrows prominent, with tendency to meet, aquiline nose 

 and strong chin. 



In these three, Napoleon, Nietzsche and Caesar, we have male 

 pituitocentrics, exhibiting diversities of life and tastes because 

 of differences in the co-working endocrine glands in their make- 

 up. We shall consider now a female pituitocentric who presents 

 the strangest contrasts in physique, physiognomy, conduct and 

 character, dependent upon a variation in the balance between the 

 two portions of the pituitary. 



The Legend of Florence Nightingale 



All biographies consist of prevarications and all autobiog- 

 >f fiction. That summing up of a mass of literature o 

 which industrious students have ruined their eyes, held good until 

 after the War, when things changed. Then Mr. Lytton Strachey, 

 at one fell blow, and with one magnificent masterpiece, hurdled 

 the old idols and established a new standard of deliberate ac- 

 curacy in print. In his "Eminent Victorians" he set the pace 

 for the host of those who have been stimulated by his good 

 example, like Lady Margot Asquith. 



Of the four Victorian respectable worthies E 

 sected as m mist a post-mortem, his portrait 



of Florence Nightingale, the founder of the mod and 



art of nursing, is most interesting because it provid l of 



[fl of hill:. 

 onality. In the conventional two-volum of this 



supcrwoman, she is pictured as an tutu 



n a stained glass window up< mderful visit to a clay- 



smeared earth. 11 the ins and outs 



of her body and son! with a 



fresh vitality that is startling. 



