The Glands of Destiny: a Study of the Personality
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Owner's signature. Some rubbing to ends of spine. Some spotting to page edges and preliminary and final leaves. ; Second edition, revised and enlarged. xv, [1], 272 pages + frontis + plates. "To i...
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Owner's signature. Some rubbing to ends of spine. Some spotting to page edges and preliminary and final leaves. ; Second edition, revised and enlarged. xv, [1], 272 pages + frontis + plates. "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 account, 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: 1936
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
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Country: New Zealand
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