El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-04
Schenk's Sex Theory.
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ShHeko Tribune
A dispatch from Vienns discloses
further particulars concerning the
treatment by which DR.. 8. L. Scbeuk,
profe. sor of embryOlogy in the Impe-
rial university in that city, claims he
can infall,bly alter and ax the sex Of an
unborn child. DIR. S :henk Is said to
have pub ished q book revealing bis
theory and M tho d and he has also out
lined lho.e too correspondent. Thoueh
the Austrian pro essor's alleged dis
cove ry NUT be received as yet with
gIoi deal of caution, his p aren't sue
cess 10 several noted cases will COM
hearing.
AS before stated, DIR. Scbeuk holds
that the sex OF 40 UNBORN Oh Id 10 In
fluencsd wholly by the nature and
amuu ut of nutrition given it through
the blood of he mother. Up to GER
tain point the child is sexless, ard Its
b ,comi x male or female depe nds.
red blood corpuscles with which
it is suppl d. The bio,
of Q man Contains one-ffth more Ut
TT e,e corpusles III An the blood OF wo-
man. The lea ned Austrisn's theory
il that this difference 10 the original
caus nf sex determination, and that II
the larger numb-s OF cOrpuscies b.
prcd uced in the child before birth it
will be male. If the smaller number
be supplied it will be q female. The
crux of the doctors theory opp. ars
when he claims that he Gao tndalhbly
m .nipulate this blood supply by giving
the proper food TO the ulother.
The food to produce q male child 10
said to be that containing maximum
of nitrogen, such as animal fats. The
mother must be deprived as far as pos
Cd of he h0n hid R0f
are found in vegetables. Whenever
traces OF sugar appear In the score
tioos of the body they are 40 indica-
lions tnxt nitro. enous food must be ad-
MIN s'ered, the object of the nitrogen
being TO rid the system OF sugar. II
all trace Of sugar il BAT shed the chill
will be male. If sugar is constantly
found b. fore birth the child will be Of
the sugsr-loviug sex. The treatment
must begin . year bef,re birth and
cont nue. elk mont 9, thus covering the
formative period OF the embryo.
Dr.. Schenk's treatment devotes it.
self Chi. f. TO the elimination Of eug4r
from the Q stem, on the hypothesis
that its sec-e ion is proof OF incom-
plete assimilation aud cOnse Queut inn
poverishmeot Of the blood. He &C.
cept. the scie tide dictum that femin
10 ty 10 q re-ult Of arrested devel
holds that wherever the arresting of
full nutrition l. indica ed q. he thing
1t is by TIE -ecretiOn of sugar, the chi d
" IL be female unless the nutrition g
STIMULATED and increased by nitrogen
Gus food.
All his is ingenious and 10 teresGirg
but he tn .Ory is still far from be.nga
pr. v fac'. nd even euppOsiS,r it
should be prove that Dr.. ScbeDk ha-
made q &c uipe discovery it il far
FROM certain that 1t IS OF benefit to
mankird. For the present The mat er
must he regsrde as merely . medical
Hypothesis in dsrg 4rous eta
Whnev-r there i. in the theory
for physi, isDs. 1t j. MT Q thing that
should b tar Pc ed with by t. 9 aver
age ci IL q. D., Schepk himselt ad-
mits t. a. the countrywomeo OF HE own
land, accustomed as they are to
vegetable diet, are ITnmedi %tely cub
jected to ito cradle Il rin1 und
the trea ment wi b ia. y ana pitruge-
nous foods What further danger
there m ~ be 10 lamp rinR with ma
ture in the way he proposes no one
knows.
II will be noticed shes Dr.. Schenk
ep AXIS throughout as If the gre a
CT i'dr-n. Perhaps he voices o world
wide prejudice i, 40 doing. 1u thst
ca-e, II by any chance his disc0v ~
should prove to be all that b. elaine
for it, humanity is scare. ly to be con-
Rratulx'ed, Th.re 10 ao universal iaw
Of nature, pointed out by DR.. Elliott
Cones, that everv deliberate interior.
eoce with the balance OF nature in-
evit+b'y produces DISASTROUS results
There can be no doubt that this Law
would quickly make itself fe't in many
wavs IN case OF icn q Wholesale tam
perioK with nature a. DR.. Schenk pro-
poses.