According to Plutarch, Julius Caesar was of slender build, fair-complexioned, pale, emaciated, of a delicate constitution (reminding us of Darwin), subject to severe headache and violent attacks of epilepsy.  In view of the work of Cushing, the concurrence of “severe headache and violent attacks of epilepsy” is sharply suggestive of a pituitary origin for both.  In his seventeenth year he was already engaged to be married, which proves his precocity.  An overactive, erratic pituitary could here also be held responsible.  Soon after he was proscribed by the dictator Sulla, and the first of a series of epileptic convulsions is recorded.  Shock tries the pituitary, as well as the adrenals.

His sexual libido was of the quality that stimulated his soldiers to sing celebrations of his exploits.  The first woman he was engaged to be jilted.  Cornelia, his first wife, he divorced on the ground that “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.”  Matrimony committed twice thereafter landing him in the divorce court, he devoted himself to liaisons, one with Cleopatra.  This sexual hyperactivity was probably another pituitary trait.

The compound of intellectual and practical ability he realized was of the rarest.  It meant a most delicate balance between his ante-pituitary, post-pituitary, adrenals and thyroid.  He was an orator, politician, historian, conqueror, and statesman.  That his thyroid functioned well can be deduced from a career which involved more than three hundred personal triumphs as recognition from his native city.  On horseback, riding without using his hands, he would often dictate to two or three secretaries at once.  The masculine love of glory and ambition, expression of a well-working ante-pituitary, was combined with the effeminate echoes of an equally well-evolved post-pituitary.  No prima donna was more concerned with the care of her skin, complexion and hair than he.  The analogy extends even to superfluous hair which he had removed, not by the modern electrolysis, but by depilation with forceps and main force.  The attendants at his bath would polish his epidermis, for his satisfaction, until it resembled alabaster or marble.

Caesar was not the kind of great man that Darwin was, and only a rather muddled careerist because he had too much adrenal and post-pituitary.  But he was pituitocentric of a certain type.  We possess no authentic portraits or busts of him to go by.  But the bust in the Museum of Naples, for which he probably sat (some, H.G.  Wells among them, will not accept this), presents the sort of face that is often seen in pituitary epileptics, and the features and skull of a pituitocentric:  long, large, well-modeled head eyebrows prominent, with tendency to meet, aquiline nose and strong chin.

In these three, Napoleon, Nietzsche and Caesar, we have male pituitocentrics, exhibiting diversities of life and tastes because of differences in the co-working endocrine glands in their makeup.  We shall consider now a female pituitocentric who presents the strangest contrasts in physique, physiognomy, conduct and character, dependent upon a variation in the balance between the two portions of the pituitary.