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THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY
A STUDY OF THE GLANDS OF INTERNAL SECRETION IN RELATION TO THE TYPES
OF HUMAN NATURE
BY LOUIS BERMAN, M.D.
ASSOCIATE IN BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
1922
The passage from the miracles of nature to those of art is easy.
--Francis Bacon, _Novum Organum_, 1620.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: ATTITUDES TOWARD HUMAN NATURE
I. HOW THE GLANDS OF INTERNAL SECRETION WERE DISCOVERED
II. THE GLANDS: THYROID AND PITUITARY
III. THE ADRENAL GLANDS, GONADS, AND THYMUS
IV. THE GLANDS AS AN INTERLOCKING DIRECTORATE
V. HOW THE GLANDS INFLUENCE THE NORMAL BODY
VI. THE MECHANICS OF THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE
VII. THE RHYTHMS OF SEX
VIII. HOW THE GLANDS INFLUENCE THE MIND
IX. THE BACKGROUNDS OF PERSONALITY
X. THE TYPES OF PERSONALITY
XI. SOME HISTORIC PERSONAGES
XII. APPLICATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES
XIII. THE EFFECT UPON HUMAN EVOLUTION
THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY
INTRODUCTION
ATTITUDES TOWARD HUMAN NATURE
THE CASE AGAINST HUMAN NATURE
Man, know thyself, said the old Greek philosopher.
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