The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-12
CLAIMS CONTROL OF SEX.
Startling Declaration by Professor scheni
of Vienna.
Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Has the secret of sex been dlscoV-
cred? Can Professor SchenB lnfalllply
control the sex of unborn children, as
he asserts? If so, does not the dlscoV-
cry point to the disappearance or the
human race by an overproduction of
males?
These are questions which the scien-
tific world has been asking since the
eminent professor of embryology OF the
Vienna university declared that ms re-
searches had been crowned with sue
cess; that he had in many cases deter
mined in advance the sex of children
and that by a scientific system he could
produce males in every case II given
the care of the eXpectant mother III
time. At first blush the startling state
ments of Professor Schenk were re-
ceived with incredulity and even inn
patience by the scientific world. They
were not deemed worthy of considera-
ton much less credence. They We're
said to be the thraShing over oil ola
straw, the PRONUNCIATION of theories as
old as Aristotle. But when further de-
tails of Schenk's alleged discovery We're
made public. when something of the
results he has attained were made
known the doctors and embryologlsts
and professors began to listen bit
more respectfully, until nov they are
in position where they are waiting
for the report of the Academy OF
Science of Vienna. to which the mat
ter has been submitted by professor
Schenk.
According to the brief details of the
system which the professor has given
TO the world-for he guards his main
secret closely until the academy de-
cides upon its worth-the differences in
sex, as is well known to medical men,
depend upon the difference in the num-
Der of blood corpuscles in the male and
female. The male, full grown. has ap-
proXimately 100000, While the female
has but 100000. This accounts for all
of the differences between the sexes.
The professor asserts, in contradiction
to generally accepted theories. that the
germ cell in it's earliest stages. is BIZ
sexual and not either male or female.
Further, and the main point of the
Sehenk theory, he says that by proper
diet and other attentions, the details
of which compose the secret, the num-
Der of blood corpuscles in the expect
ant mother can be increased and there
by the number in the embryo increases
and a male child is the result. The pro-
fessor does not lay any claims 10 being
able to produce girls, but he says he
can infallibly produce boy If he l.
given charge of the woman at an early
enough stage of CESSATION.
This startling theory. of course, has
been fiercely combated by medical ano
/ scientific men from the moment II was
made public. The more conservative
/ have withheld their judgment until tbs
| professor sees fit to give the details o
! his treatment to the world. refusing [,
I pay any attention to what has been ac
/ complished by Sehenk further than L
I say that il would require the closes
/ scientific scrutiny to determine tina
I such results are not condolences. Th'
professor declares that he Is the fathe
of six sons by preference, that he ha
/ experimental with perfect success II
the families of friends who We're agree
able and whom he could trust with tn
secret and that his greatest feat wa
the successful treatment OF the Arch
duchess Isabella Of Austria, wife Of tin
Archduke Frederick. The latter was
nephew of Archduke Albrecat who ha
an enormous property. valued at abou
$50. OO0, 600. II consisted Of lands
castles. mines. forests and iron works
During Archduke Alhrechts life tn
present Archduke Frederick lived upo
1 an allowance and in 1873 he married
princess without fortune. She ha
! eight daughters and Archduke Fred
erick was in despair Of ever having a
heir to perpetuate the family line an
name.
Three years ago Archduge Abrech
died and Archduke Frederick came int
nossession Of the enormous forum,
Then his desire for an heir was keene