In the average feminine pituitary type of personality, post-pituitary dominates.  In a woman and to a lesser degree in a man, the general build is slight and rather delicate.  The skin is soft, moist, and hairless, the face is the doll or Dresden China sort, with a roseate or creamy complexion, flushing easily, eyes large and prominent.  The mouth shows a high arched palate and crowded teeth rather long.  The voice is high-pitched.  One recognizes the traditional womanly woman, petite and chic, who always marries the hero in stories.  She is usually fond of children, easily moved, has a good libido, and the traditional feminine traits.  When unstable, the post-pituitary type is restless and hyperactive, craves excitement, and continual change of interest and scene, a new pleasure every moment.  A good many of the women of today, who fifty years ago would have been nice sedate girls because of their excellent post-pituitary constitution, have been irritated by the atmosphere of post-1914 into the excess post-pituitary state, the adventurous never-satiated avid pleasure hunter, in whom the craving for stimulation will stop at nothing.  F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed an exquisite specimen of the kind in his short story “The Jellybean,” with a quasi-heroine of a good Southern family, built to be a high standard wife and mother, who drinks, swears, gambles, and finally marries on a dare.  Modern post-pituitary woman is excitement mad and thrill chasing.  The worst of it is that the resultant personal tragedies cannot be dismissed as transient inevitables.  The heredity of the internal secretions determines that the offspring of these women are bound to be pituitary unstable, the least desirable of endocrine instabilities because of the concomitant mental effects.  Even from the purely selfish point of view, the standpoint of enlightened selfishness, the post-pituitary type must beware of excesses.  For disturbances of menstruation, psychic fears, anxieties, states of suspicion and obsession, various pains are among the penalties.

A period of post-pituitary excess as an effect of disease, pregnancy, or the rapid life, may be followed by post-pituitary deficiency as a result of exhaustion of the gland.  The girl or woman then becomes fat and suffers from headaches (the fair, fat and forty type) yet retains a certain capacity for enjoyment which enables her to continue gay, happy and gentle, kind, interested.  So she contrasts with the thyroid deficient who gets fat, but also dull, stupid, even morose.

The masculine pituitary personality, the man with a dominant anterior pituitary gland in a roomy sella turcica with plenty of space to grow in, is the ideal virile type.  They are generally tall (unless the growth of the long bones was checked too early by a social precocity of the testes) with a well-developed strong frame, large firm muscles, and proportionately sized hands and feet.  The head is of the marked dolichocephalic type, flattened at the sides, face