The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-15
cry Attracts Much Attention
Among Medical Men and Scien-
lists in the East.
SOME EEXPRESS DOUBTS
Others Manifest Great Faith in
the Theory.
The Man Described by One Who
Studied Under Him.

New York, Jan.15.-Not since the dis
cOvery of the Roentgen rays has the
scientific world been as much interest
ed as it is in DR.. Schenck's announce
ment that he can control the sex of
babies.
Dr.. George F. Schrady of this city
doubts Schenck's discovery DR.. Cyrus
Edison is also skeptical, but acknowl-
edges that breeders of cattle have long
been able to determine sex in a large
majority of cases.
Prof. Ward of the National Museum
in Washington, D. C., rather thinks a
discovery has been made, but he is
nonplussed, as for years his investiga-
tions along a similar line have brought
him to a directly opposite conclusion
and instead of producing males he Sc
cured females. He experimental with
plants and bees.
''Of course he said, '1t is well
known that the way queen bees are
created in a hive is by taking any
pupa and oVerfeeding it, as you may
say. This, the bees themselves know
how to do, and if the queen happens to
die they will go and get another pupa,
seQuestrate it, feed it abundantly and
it will be sure to be a queen"
Professors and physicians in Balti-
more, Philadelphia, at Yale, Harvard
and other points hold conservative
views and are awaiting further in
vestigatiOnS.
Prof. Henry L. Swain, NJ D., of Yale
Medical school, himself a. scientist, is
greatly interested. Prof. Swain says:
4 do not think it an impossfbiIity
that Prof. Schenck may have made the
discovery claimed. Indeed, I think it
highly probable that the secret of sex
will in time be discovered and made
plain.
Experiment has shown that the sex
OF tadpoles, for instance, can be con-
trolled at will, under experimental con-
ditiOnS. In the earlier stages the eggs
are entirely seXless, but by regulating
the temperature of the water in which
the eggs are placed the sex may be
controlled. Colder water produces male
tadpOles, warmer water the female.
Perhaps, after all, the controlling of
sex is no more wonderful than the per-
petuatiOn of race"
DR.. Otto H. Schultze is one of the
very few physicians in this city who
had the advantage of studying under
Prof. Schenck- He says Schenck is
recognized in Austria, and in fact
throughout the German Empire also,as
the greatest living authority on en-
bryOlOgy. AS such his views are sought
by the most prominent specialists of
Europe.
Prof. Schenck is of medium height
rather stout and has very pleasant
face" says DR.. Schultze. He differs
from most professors in the European
universities, for he is of a very COM
panionable nature. He is exceedingly
agreeable to American students and
very helpful to all who work under him
in his laboratory.
Il worked under Prof. Schenck for
nearly two years. said DR. SchuItze. 'I
never met a more agreeable man. In
deed, know of no college professor to
whom the students took a greater fan
cy than they did to the eminent pro-
fessor.
There is nothing striking or peculiar
in this mans appearance. He might
readily be called a handsome man. He
walks erect. He reminds one of a mil
ltary man. He is rather bald. His
hair and beard are gray, and his beard
is trimmed closely. This gives him
the appearance of being a French
man.
prof. Schenck is a man of truth He
is not a sensatiOna1ist. He hates no
toriety; he did not divulge the secret of
his discovery. but referred it to the
Academy of Science.
''Since DR.. Schenck says that he has
solved this most important problem,
must believe that it is true, every word
of it.
Money has no charm for this emf
nent scientist. He works for the sake
of study and for the sake of being able
to benefit mankind"
DR.. N. P De Forrest Of Brooklyn is
a friend of DR.. Schenck. He visited
the professor about five years ago, and
while in Vienna worked with him in his
laboratory for one year.
IF he claims to have achieved any
great results from his experiments, you
may depend there is something in it,
says he, ''as the eminent doctor is not
given to wasting words.
when in Vienna 1 watched with
great interest the embryOIogical exper-
iments which DR.. Schenck was then
making on various small animals, but
never thought at the time of his real
purpose"
The Sultan and Our Missionaries.
The Porte has demanded the recall of
two American Missionaries from the
province of AleppO, on the pretext that
their mission is likely to cause disturb
anceS- The sick man of Europe" is
as unreasonable as his political health
is feeble. As a bright contrast to his
obstinacy and stupidity, the people of
America are acknowledging far and
wide the beneficence of the mission of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, namely.
to relieve and prevent malaria, rheum-
atism and kidney complaint, chronic
dyspepsia, constipation and liver trou-
bic. The nervous, the weak ana the
infirm derive unspeakable benefit from
it's use, and it greatly mitigates the
weakness and infirmities which are
specially incident to advancing years.
To Cure, Cold in Que Day.
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