The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-12

NueH IIOIcSsOT oCnenck was ih1o
requisitlon and he at once took charge
of the case with the result that in July
the delighted Frederick became the
father of boy. This was regarded as
an immense triumph for Schenck and
his theory, although at that time the
facts were known to but few people
outside of the immediate family.
The theory of sex control is by no
means new one either among medical
men or among breeders of animals. Ii
has long been known to raisers OF 1--we
stock that the sex of cattle could be
controlled by proper treatment or the
cow and bee raisers can produce queen
bees at will, the bees themselves, in
fact, performing the work by seques-
trating the pupa and feeding IL more
richly than bees ordinarily feed. Inc
bees do this as soon as queen dies
and the result Is invariably a queen
bee. Tadpoles can be produced male or
female from the egg by regulating the
temperature of the water cold water
producing males and warm water fe-
males. But up to this time no such re-
suits as Professor Schenck lays claim
to have been produced in the human
race.
Professor Schenck, of course, has not
vet told all there is to his discovery,
but he has given out an interesting talk
about the results. He says:
Il gave the treatment under seal TO
ence where it will be tested and pub
lshed. But / can tell the results OF my
discovery and the scientific facts upon
which my discovery is based. what
lies between is my secret. III ! say l
can determine the sex of a child to be
born you must understand that can
bring about that the woman shall be-
come the mother of son and not OF
daughter.
My treatment has no other aim than
causing boys to be born. l made my
discovery many years ago and sub
jected it to proofs. 1t is my own choice
that l am the father of six sons, four
of whom are alive and strong. l nave
achieved similar results in the famllies
of relatives. friends and some persons
in whose ability to keep secret hao
full confidence-14 cases in all.
but l cannot treat every stranger
who may appeal to me. ] must be able
to watch the patient, must be certain
that my directions are scrupulously
obeyed. I consider every new case an
experiment. test of my discovery. L
must have certainty.
II can bring 1t about with human be-
ings or with animals having one young
at a time, that their offspring shall be
male and with animals bearing many
together that the majority snail pc
male.
"When I observed hens l numbered
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whether a male or a female bird would
come | scarcely ever was mistaken.
II am no man of business, but exclu-
sively a scientist. l am not anxious TO
gain a fortune, but desire above every
thing that my discovery shall be sclen-
tiffcally confirmed and recognized. me
Academy of Sciences alone can do TINS.
/ have accepted no reward IN the sue
cessful cases | have treated. They are
precious to me beyond gold as proofs of
the reality of my discovery:
Il have achieved success IN famiiy
in which the desires for the birth OF a
son were intense. If / told you the
name of the head of the family you
would know that for him to pay me
$40 900 for my services would pc no
more than for you to pay the doctor
81 for examining your throat. but
did not accept any reward
IAN former theories and hypotheses
have been proved false, According to
NV own discovery the man has not IN
! fuence whatever on the sex OF the
child. 1t all depend upon the woman
! But the treatment must not begln AIT
err pregnancy; it must begin peiore con-
! ception. as the woman must De put INTO
n posftion to enable her to develop a
male child from the ovum
| ..The assertion that the oVum IN the
| female oVary possesses the male or the
female germ already developed pefore
imprgnation is false. on the contrary
! the embryo is sexless during several
etaqes of DEVELOPMENT. 1t is possible
that nv treatment can develop a male
child even in this stage, but there Il
no certainty of 1T.
MY discovery is based upon tht
scientific fact that the blood In 9
| rrownup man contains 100000 blooo
| eornuscies. the bearers of life-giving
nourishing oxygen, while the blood II
q grownllp woman contains only 4,0oo,
600 This difference is the basis of dill
ference in sex and of the different NOR
al and physical working powers IN mar
and woman. This proportion is obser
vabe in the slightest quantity OF oloo'
from a man or woman.
"AII my efforts are directed toward
producing in the embryo the rlght mum
Der of blood eorpuscles required by TN
male / have succeeded in attalnint
this effect by suitable nourishment o
the woman and by influencing the met
abolic process in the change or mat
ter. -
THE proof of my discovery is that
can tell from the expectant mother
products whether she Will have son o
a daughter. l have never made mis-
take in many years IN applying TN
test"
Doctors and scientistsIs as rule de
clare that while Professor Schenk Is en-
titled to respectful hearing II Is no
fair to him to pass criticism or 1uds
ment upon his discovery in the form II
which il has thus far been presented Z
the public. partly withheld. They sa,
they will await the dictum of the Acad
envy of Sciences of Vienna before pass
ing upon the probability of success o
the theory. Further medical men as
sert that experiments must be mad
on all classes of people under all con
titions before true results are attained
Pref Tester f Ward of the nati0na
| museum Washington, has devote
| much time and study to the same SUP
ject and in reference to it he said:
II am greatly interested in the queS
, ton of controlling the sexes In on
, point of view. but my theory always ma
, been that the female sex represents TN
! higher life power of the human rae,
Some years ago / published an artici
, entitled Our Better Halves. in which
maintained the biological superiority
! the female sex over the male, And
) have many times repeated the genera