etic and the rule of three. A cancellation of the two
factors of the equation rather than addition seems to have occurred.
The result was a persistent thymus superiority, with an instability of
the other two main glands involved.

How do we know that Oscar Wilde was a thymocentric? Because in his
fullest development he exhibited all the earmarks of the thymus
pattern. We possess a number of good pictures and descriptions of him,
as he was really a contemporary, and would probably be alive today
if he had been put in a hospital for proper treatment instead of in
prison. An excellent description is that of Henri de Regnier's: "This
foreigner (Wilde) was _tall_, and of _great corpulence_. A _high_
complexion seemed to give still greater width to his clean shaven
face. It was the _unbearded_ (glabre) face that one sees on coins. The
_hands_ ... were rather _fleshy_ and _plump_." The points of immediate
interest are the height, the complexion and the beardlessness. One
classic variety of the thymocentric is tall, has a baby's skin, and
has little or no hair on the face. A passage from a narrative written
by one of his warders confirms the last condition decidedly. "Before
leaving his cell to see a visitor, he was alway careful to conceal, as
far as possible, his unshaven chin by means of his red handkerchief."
Bristles on the chin, with little or none on the cheeks, is the
inference. It is important to stress the thymocentric significance of
this glabrosity of the face. Another sign to be put in italics was the
quality of his voice. It has been described as a beautiful tenor, when
he had it under perfect control, and high pitched and strident when
under the influence of passion or temper. Such a voice would be the
product of a larynx remaining partly or completely in the infantile
state, as in a woman's. That, and the large breasts he is said to have
had, point again to the thymus-centered constitution. All in
all, there can be no doubt that Oscar Wilde was a case of status
lymphaticus, the technical name for the thymus-centered personality.

As happens in a number of thymocentrics, his pituitary must have
attempted to compensate for the endocrine deficiencies always present
in them. The exceptional size of his head was a pituitary trait.
Finding, possibly making, plenty of room for itself to grow, for some
unknown reason, in an extraordinary fashion, it reinforced the love of
the beautiful that is part of the feminine post