The Glands of Destiny: a Study of the Personality
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Third edition, revised and enlarged. Xii, 258 pages + 23 plates + 3 in-text diagrams. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Front flap of dustjacket price-clipped. Dustjacket browning. Several 3/4"...
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Third edition, revised and enlarged. Xii, 258 pages + 23 plates + 3 in-text diagrams. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Front flap of dustjacket price-clipped. Dustjacket browning. Several 3/4" tears along head edge of dustjacket. "To illustrate his thesis the author shows by a series of brilliant sketches of famous people - Henry VIII, Elizabeth, the Stuart kings, Catherine of Russia, Voltaire, Gibbon, Napoleon - how the predominance of one or more glands has influenced their characters and actions [.] It is a though-compelling accunt, showing that we think and act under the influence of glands, the functions of which we have only recently begun to understand. "; 8vo
Product Info
Publisher: William Heinemann Medical Books
Year: 1947
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
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Country: New Zealand
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