ABSTRACT
In the foregoing accounts of the classical doctrine of the temperaments and of the modern theory of endocrine glands, an effort was made to pass over, without emphasis as far as possible, the connexions which were postulated between physiological conditions, and what is generally known as the emotional life of the individual. In spite of this precaution such references inevitably crept in. We saw for example that Richerand, speaking of the bilious temperament, attributed to it ‘violent passions,’ that the sanguine was labelled ‘feeling though inconstant,’ while Stewart spoke of the sanguine as ‘ardent not persistent,’ and of the bilious as ‘passionate and jealous.’ Berman referred to the post—pituitary type as ‘peculiarly susceptible to the tender emotions, and to the thyroid type as ‘liable to sudden crises of emotional expression’
