The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-12
THE QUESTION OF SEX.
Prof Schenk Insists That His Dis
covery is Absolutely InfallibIe.

New York, Jan. ia dispatch to the
World from Vienna, says:
Prof. Schenk of the Vienna universe
ty, whose reported marvellous discOv-
cry of the secret of the sex startled civ
iHZatiOn last week, has made the first
authoritative statement of the result
of his experiments.
DR.. Schenk for more than four years
has been absorbed in studying the de-
velopment of the human and lower an
imal embryos and is the recognized
leading authority in that branch of sci
ence.
He published in 1865 the first essay on
the development of the embryonal
heart and since that time has writ
ten a whole library of the develop
ments of man and beast from the Ovum
or egg.
He is a thoroughly serious scientist.
who does not exploit his discovery for
Money. He refuses to treat patients
for fees, however tempting. The cor
respondent asked:
Can you give me positive, direct in
formation of your discovery with re-
gard to the treatment of women anX-
ious to have sons?'
Prof. Schenk answered with determ-
nation:
I give the treatment under seal to
the Vienna Imperial Academy of Sci
ence, where it will be tested and pub
lished. But can tell you the results
of my discovery, and let you have the
scientific facts upon which my discoV-
cry is based What lies between is my
secret If 1 say 1 can determine the
sex of a child to be born, you must I'M
derstand that I can bring it about that
the woman shall become the mother of
a son and not of a daughter. My treat
ment has no other aim than causing
boys to be born. made my discovery
many years ago and subjected 1t to
proofs
1T is my own choice that am the
father of six sons, four of whom are
alive and strong. I have achieved SIM
a1enff xrfacs
friends and some persons in whose anil
ity to keep a secret L had full conf
dence-fourteen cases in all
But I cannot trust every stranger
that may appeal to me. 1 must be
able to watch the patient, must be GER
tain that my directions are scrupulous-
" obeyed I consider every new case
an experiment, a test OF my discovery
7 must have certainty 1 can bring it
about with human beings or with AMI
mails which have one young at a time
that this offspring shall be male ana
with animals bearing many togelhef
that the majority shall be male. When
1 observed hens I numbered the eggs,
determining beforehand whether male
or a female bird would come out. !
scarcely 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 pro-
fessor replied: I am no man of bust
ness, but exclusively a scientist. am
not anxious to gain a fortune, but de-
sire above everything that my discov-
cry shall be scientifically confirmed
and recognized. The Academy of Sci
ence alone can do this. I have &C
cepted no reward for the successful
cases I have treated. They are prec-
ious to me beyond gold as proofs of the
reality of my discovery.
Il have achieved success in a family
in which the desire for the birth of a
son was intense. If told you the name
of the head of the family, you would
know that for him to pay me $4,000
for my services would be no more than
for you to pay a doctor for examining
your throat. But did not accept any
reward
.sAn former theories and hypothesis
have been proved false. According to
my discovery the man has no influence
whatever on the sex of the child. 1t
all depends upon the woman.
My discovery is based upon the sci
entific fact that the blood in a grown
up man contains five million blood cor
puscles the bearers of life giving nour-
ishing oxygen. while the blood in a
grown up woman contains only four
millions.
This difference is the basis of diff
ferences in sex and the different moral
and physical working powers in man
and woman This proportion is OBJ
servable in the slightest quantity of
blood from a man or woman. All my
efforts are directed towards producing
in the embryo the right number of
blood corpuscles required by the male.
I have succeeded in attaining this eff
feet by suitable nOuriShment of the wo-
man and by influencing the metaboIic
process in the change of matter