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