The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-12
THE DETERMINATION OF SEX.
Prof. Scbeuck Talks OF His Recent
Discovery.

Discovery
New York, Jan. 12.ZThe World to-
day publishes an interview with Prof.
Schenck, of Vienna, relating his re-
cent alleged discovery with respect TO
the parental determination of sex. The
distinguished Austrian embryologist
says:
Il gave 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 l say / can determine the
sex of q child to be born, you must UNI
derstand that / can bring it about that
the woman shall become the mother of
a son and not of a daughter.
My treatment has no other aim than
causing boys TO be born. / made my
discovery many years ago and sub
! jected it To proofs. 1t is by my own
! choice that l am the father of six sons,
/ four OF whom are alive and strong.
L have achieved similar results in the
families of relatives, friends and some
! persons in whose ability to keep Sc
! cret / had full confidence-fourteen
cases in all.
But / cannot treat every stranger
! who may appeal to me. | must be able
! to watch the patient, must be certain
| that my directions are ScrupuIouSly
obeyed. / consider every new case an
| experiment. a test of my discovery. i
| must have certainty.
II can bring ii about with human
beings or with animals having one
young at a time that this offspring
shall be male, and with animals bearing
many together that the majority shall
be male. When / observed hens ] num-
bered the eggs, determining beforehand
whether a male or female bird would
I come out l scarcely ever was mista-
! ken.
Il am not anxious to gain fortune,
/ but desire above everything that my
| discovery shall be scientifically con-
| firmed and recognized. The Academy
| of Sciences alone can do this. | have
achieved success in a family in which
! the desires for the birth of son were
! 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 doctor 81 for examining
your throat. But / did not accept any
| reward.
"All former theories and hypothesis
have all been proved false. According
| to my discovery the man has no influ-
ence whatever on the sex of the child.
Ii all depends upon the woman. But
F, the treatment must not begin after
! pregnancy; it must begin before con-
! ception. as the woman must be put in
| to 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
/ IL nl,-.o hAfA
| impregnation is false. On the contrary.
| the embryo is seNless during several
! stages of development. 1t is possible
| that my treatment can develop a male
| child even in this stage, but there is no
! certainty of il.
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 fe-giving.
nourishing oxygen, while the blood in
/ a grown-up woman contains only four
| millions This difference is the basis
/ of differences in sex and of the different
moral and physical working powers in
man and woman. This proportion is
observable in the slightest quantity OF
J blood from a man OF a woman.
/ "AlI my efforts are directed toward
producing in the embryo the right num-
/ Der of blood corpuscles required by the
male. l have succeeded in attaining
| this effect by suitable nourisnment OF
/ the woman and by influencing the met
J abolic process in the change of matter.
The proof of my discovery is that |
! can tell from the eXpectant mother s
! products whether she will have son
/ or a daughter. / have never made a
| mistake in many years in applying this
test
| There is only one public parsonage in
! Austria to whom all the professors in
! dications point. He is a member of the
| imperial house-Archduke Frederick,
a nephew of the old Archduke Albrecht,
, at whose death three years ago he in
| herited a colossal property, entaied
| because Archduke Albrecht left only
! one daughter and no son.