for the pituitary dominance of most
specimens of intellectual power. As a case in point let us take the
most famous of the epileptic geniuses--Julius Caesar, "When the fit
was on I marked how he did shake; tis true, this god did shake."

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 o