The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02
DIR. sCHENK,s THEORY OF SEX
II Has Been Put Into a Book Soon to
BE Sold.

AS announced by an Associated Press
dispatch from Vienna several days ago.
The Werner company, of Akron, o., has
secured the copyright privileges of
Prof. Schenk's book on the "Determina-
ton of Sex" both in the United States
and England. The work has been Wig
orously pushed and is now ready for
distribution. DR.. Leopold Schenk, the
author, Is professor at the Imperial
and Royal university and director of
the Embryological institute in Vienna.
He has devoted twenty years to the in
vestigation Of the subject, predetermin-
| alton of sex, and has verified his theor-
les again and again by painstaking and
| exhaustive experiments. The transla-
| tion has been supervised by Doctor
| MacKellar, the well-known English
| medical authority.
In view of the fact, says no less an
authority than the British Medical
Journal, that Prof. Schenk's conclu-
sions as to the power of artifcially
| determining the sex Of offspring have
served as a nine-day's wonder, II seems
advisable to lay before our readers (the
medical profession of England, Aus
tralia and India) a plain statement of
his arguments. His treatise falls into
| three parts-a summary of the writings
OF his predecessors on the same sub
| ject, an account of his own researches
| and deductions, and finally a deserip-
| tion of the method of treatment he has
| devised, with illustrative cases.
MY discovery" explains DR.. Schenk,
"is based upon the scientific fact that
| the blood of q grown-up man contains
| five million blood corpuscles. the bear
| ers of life-giving and nourishing oXy-
gen, whilst the blood of a grown-up
woman only contains four million. The
| difference is the basis of the difference
of sex, Of the different moral and phys
| ical working powers in man and wo-
| man. This proportion is observable in
| the slightest quantity of blood from a
man or woman. .All my efforts are
| directed toward producing the right
number of blood corpuscles required by
| the male embryo. l have succeeded in
attaining this effect by suitable nour-
ishment of the woman"
| 1t is a well-known fact that for ages
the secret of predetermining sex has
eluded the grasp of science; that from
remotest Antiquity this question has
engaged the attention Of wise men and
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countless idle theories that have been
advanced, many of which have seemed
| plausible and have had a temporary
| following only to prove delusive and
without foundation. DR.. Schenk's dis
| covery might be treated skeptically,
but that it comes to us on the author
| ity of one of the leading medical lights
of Europe; from Vienna, too, the recog-
nized center for advanced medical re-
search of the whole world. that it is
attracting the respectful attention of
learned societies everywhere; that the
British Medical Journal dignifies it
with a lengthy review, tantamount to
the endorsement of the profession in
England; while the arstocracy of the
Austrian capital, says a well-known
correspondent. accepts the theory, and
balief in it spreads with marvellous ra-
pidity Every day, he adds, the little
street in which Prof. Schenk lives is
crowded with elegant carriages from
which ladies alight eager to consult the
| doctor.
Its simplicity cannot be accepted as
an argument against the soundness OF
his theory. History teaches us ovel
and over again that the so-called Sec
rets OF nature all lie near to the sur
face.
According to DR.. Schenk, it is an
easy matter to determine the sex OF
children, The rules laid down are eX-
plicit and easily followed.