With an overactive thyroid we observe a high color, sleeplessness,
restlessness, a tendency to lose weight, emotionalism, profuse
perspiration, bright, large eyes, good white teeth.
=The Adrenal Glands= are about the size of a bean and located on top of
the kidneys. They secrete adrenin which, when poured into the blood,
causes muscular tension, accelerates the heart beats and the breathing
rate, dilates the pupil and produces fear or anger according to the
relative size of the core (medulla) or envelop (cortex) of the adrenals.
In timid animals (and women) the cortex is thin, in courageous animals
(and men) the cortex is rather thick. According to the thickness of
your cortex you shall, in an emergency, resort to either fight or
flight.
A man with a thin cortex looks feminine, a woman with a thick cortex
looks mannish.
The adrenals control the color of the skin, the growth of hair, the
size of the canine teeth and the color of the teeth. To good adrenals
correspond an olive complexion, much hair on the body, rather yellowish
teeth and strong canines. The bearded lady of the circus is a woman
with overdeveloped adrenals and a thick cortex.
Weak adrenals go with cold extremities, a hairless body, poor canines,
lack of ambition, discouragement, fatigability, etc.
=The Gonads or Sex Glands=, testes in man, ovaries in woman,
affect thru the secretions of their interstitial cells, the pitch of
the voice, the growth of pubic hair, the size of the breasts, the
distribution of fat.
Good gonads mean masculine looking men and feminine looking women.
Poor gonads mean feminine looking men, hairless and with overdeveloped
breasts, talking in a high-pitched voice, with a tendency to obesity
and laziness (eunuchs); scrawny looking women who may later in
life grow abnormally fat, with, in their youth, flat chests, scanty
menstruation, etc.
Healthy gonads also retard senility. Gonads whose interstitial cells
have been rehabilitated by the Steinach operation bring a new youth to
the organism, mentally and physically.
Other glands, the thymus, pancreas, parathyroid, pineal body also
play an important part in shaping the human body and with it the
personality. The limits of this book do not allow me, however, to
discuss them even superficially.
CHAPTER XXIV
GLANDULAR PERSONALITIES
I stated in the preceding chapter that to every degree of glandular
development there corresponds a certain set of physical characteristics
which, in the love life, may be transformed into fetishes, (beautiful
features, laymen call them), which are necessary to arouse sexual
desire in one's mate, but which are not necessarily attractive to any
one else.
Those physical characteristics are, in turn, the tangible evidence of
the presence of certain mental attitudes and predispositions.
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