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Is Reduced to a System by
Prof. SChenCk
FOURTEEN SEVERAL TIMES
THE SAvANT MADE TESTS AND
ESCAPED DETECTION
Jacobs piled Chestnut Tree Is Useless
Unless Some Wild Westerner
Should Need Club

Associated Press Special Wire
NEW YORK. Jan. ia dispatch TO
the World from Vienna, says:
Prof. Schenck Of the Vienna Univer-
sity, whose reported marvellous discov-
cry of the secret of sex startled civiliza-
ton last week, has made the following
statements of the results of his expert
ments. DR.. Schenck, for more than four
years, has been absorbed in the study
Of the development of the human and
lower animals embryos, and is the recog-
nized leading authority in that branch
of science. He published in 1855 the first
essay on the development of the em-
| bryonical heart and since that time has
written a whole library on the develop
ment Of man and beast from the ovum
or egg. He is a thoroughly serious
| scientist, who does not exploit his dis
| covery for money. He refuses to treat
patients for fees. however tempting.
The correspondent asked:
Can you give positive, direct informa-
tion of your discovery with regard to the
treatment of women anxious to have
sons?"
| Prof. Schenck answered with deter
mination:
81 give the treatment under seal to the
Vienna Imperial Academy of Sciences,
where it will be tested and published.
But 1 can tell you the results of my dis
covery and let you have the scientific
facts upon which my discovery is based.
What lies between is my secret. If
say l can determine the sex of child
to be born, you must understand that
can bring it about that the woman shall
become the mother of son and not of
daughter. My treatment has no other
aim than causing boys to be born. I
made my discovery many years ago and
subjected 1t to proofs.
"It is by my own choice that am faith
er of six sons, four of whom are alive
and strong. I have achieved similar
results in the family of relatives friends
and some persons in whose ability to
keep a secret had full confidence-four-
teen cases in all.
But 1 cannot trust every stranger
that may appeal to me. must be able
towatch the patient must be certain that
my directions are scrupulously obeyed.
L consider every new case an expert
ment, a test of my discovery. I must
have certainty. 1 can bring it about
with human beings or with animals
which have one young at time. that
this offspring shall be male and with
animals bearing many together, that the
majority shall be male. When I OBJ
served hens I numbered the eggs, de-
termining beforehand whether male or
a female bird would come out. scare
ly ever was mistaken"
The Worlds correspondent remarked
that no doubt he would be appealed to
by many families, especially where large
fortunes are at stake. The professor re-
piled:
Il am no man Of business, but ex-
clusively scientist. l am not anxious
to gain a fortune, but desire above
everything that my discovery shall be
confirmed and recognized.
THE Academy of Sciences alone can
do this.
II have accepted no reward for the
successful cases I have treated. They
are precious to me beyond gold as proof
of the reality of my discovery.
Il have achieved success in a. family
in which the desire for birth.of son
was intense. If 1 told you the name OF
the head of the family, you would know
that for him to pay 900 for my SER
vices would be no more than for you to
pay a doctor for examining your throat.
But Ibid not accept any reward.
"All former theories and hpotheses
have all been proven false. According
to my discovery, the man has no influ-
ence whatever on the sex of the child
1t all depends upon the woman But the
treatment must not begin after preg-
nancy.
'It must begin before conception, as
the woman must be put into a position
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 de-
veloped before impregnationi is false. On
the contrary the embryo is sexless dur
ing several stages of development It is
possible that my treatment can develop
a male child even in this stage, but there
is no certainty of it.
MY discovery is based on the scien-
tific fact that the blood in a grown-up
man contains five million blood corpus
cles, the bearers of life-giving nourish-
ing oxygen, while the blood in a grown
up woman contains only four millions.
This difference is the basis of differ
ences in sex and of the different moral
and physical working powers in man
and woman. This proportion is observ-
able in the slightest quantity Of blood
from a man or woman. All my efforts
are directed toward producing in the
embryo the right number of blood cor
puscles required by the male. have
succeeded in attaining this effect by
suitable nourishment Of the woman and
by influencing the metabolic process III
the change of matter"
VOTE TO STRIKE