The Glands Regulating Personality: A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human NatureBerman, Louis
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The Glands Regulating Personality: A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature
Berman, Louis
Endocrinology; Personality
The face of the hyperpituitary is striking and pretty sharply defined.
It is long and narrow, with a tendency to prominence of the bony
parts. Square, protruding jaw, high, thin, straight nose, emphasized
eyebrows, and marked cheek-bones, comprise the leading points in its
composition. On the other hand, the subpituitary is more rounded and
trends toward the full moon effect, the chin recedes, the cheek-bones
are buried under fat, the nose spreads more and is flatter. In its
general expression, there is a complacence and tranquillity which is
often mistaken for sleepiness, and often actually is dullness.
The eunuchoid face is usually fat with puffy eyelids. The skin is
smooth and cool, marble-like often, poor in pigment and color.
Sometimes it is sallow, wrinkled and senile in a man in his early
twenties. At others, it is distinctly feminine in its hairlessness,
and the delicate texture of the skin, as well as in the clean-cut
patterning of the features. Every gradient between premature senility
and sex inversion is encountered.
The thymic face frequently stamps its possessor at sight. Its owner
has a smooth, soft skin, with little or no hair, and a dead white or
"peaches-and-cream" complexion. One wonders, when unacquainted with
the type, who the man's barber is, or where he learned to shave
himself so well. It may be curiously velvety to the touch and swept by
a faint sheen. Among children occur the most exquisite samples of the
kind designated as the angelic child. The face is finely moulded and
beautifully proportioned, features artistically chiselled, eyes blue
or brown with long lashes, cheeks transparent with rapid, fleeting
variations in coloring, thin lips, and oval chin. In the adult, the
chin is receding, and the mouth seems underdeveloped in one variety.
THE TEETH
As closely connected with the internal secretions as are the bones of
the face and the skull are the teeth. Tooth formation is essentially a
modified bone formation. And as the bones of the face are influenced,
so are the teeth influenced. But as each tooth is a miniature organ,
inspectable by the eye as a unit, the action of the ductless glands
is more obviously reflected for the observer to read. By their teeth
shall ye know them. Upon the whole history of the evolution of each
tooth, in the growth of the dental follicle and its walls, the
fruition of the dentinal germ, the making of the enamel organ, the
dental pulp, the cementum and the peridental membrane, the endocrines
leave their mark.
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