Its color may be an opaque white, or faintly creamy, or
there may be an effect of a filmy sheen over a florid complexion.
Little or no hair on the face contributes to the general feminine
aspect in the more extreme types. They are often double jointed
somewhere, flat footed, knock-kneed.

In women, the external manifestations of a thymo-centric personality
may be limited to thinness and delicacy of the skin, narrow waist,
rather poorly developed breasts, arched thighs and scanty hair,
with scanty and delayed menstruation. Or there may be obesity, with
juvenility, if there is a repression of the pituitary secretion for
one reason or other.

In their reactions to the problems, physical and psychic, of everyday
life, the thymo-centrics are distinctly at a disadvantage. In the
first place, muscular strain, stress or shock is dangerous to them
because they have a small heart, and remarkably fragile blood vessels,
which renders their circulation incapable of responding to an
emergency, or at least definitely handicapped. In infancy, they may
die suddenly because of this, either for no ascertainable cause at
all, or because of some slight excitement like that attending some
slight operation, a fall, or a mild illness. During the run-about
epoch they are unable to cope with the necessities of an active
child's existence in playing with other children. Puberty and
adolescence are specially perilous to them for they may endeavour to
compensate for an inner feeling of physical inferiority by going
in strenuously for athletics and sports, and so risking a sudden
hemorrhage in the brain, producible by the tearing of a blood vessel,
as if constructed of defective rubber. Reports published in the
newspapers from time to time of children or young men instantly
killed by a tap on the jaw in a boxing contest, or some other trivial
injuries are doubtless samples of such reactions in thymo-centric
people.

As an illustration of the conduct aberrations of the thymo-centric
personality during adult life, the following extracts from a newspaper
report of a suicide are worth quoting.

"An autopsy made yesterday by Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, first assistant
to Dr. Charles Norris, Chief Medical Examiner, removed any mystery
that surrounded the death on Saturday night by pistol bullets of Dr.
Jose A. Arenas and the wounding of 'Miss Ruth Jackson' and Ignatio
Marti.

"Dr. Schwartz said that his post-mortem examination had convinced him
beyond