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Title: The Glands Regulating Personality

Author: Louis Berman, M.D.

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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. Man perforce has
taken that advice to heart. His life-long interest is his own species.
In the cradle he begins to collect observations on the nature of
the queer beings about him. As he grows, the research continues,
amplifies, broadens. Wisdom he measures by the devastating accuracy
of the data he accumulates. When he declares he knows human nature,
consciously cynical maturity speaks. Doctor of human nature--every
man feels himself entitled to that degree from the university
of disillusioning experience. In defense of his claim, only the
limitations of his articulate faculty will curb the vehemence of his
indi