The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-07
ATTEMPT
TO SOLVE BIRTH
PROBLEM OF SEX
New Theory Of Significance Id
Replacing Man-Power.

PHILADELPHIA.-France and
French Savants are making every eli
fort known to science to replace he2
lost manpower by seeking to obtain
prepopderance OF male babies over fe-
males, Since 1912, when DR.. DrelinI
court, French physician, collected 2o>1
hypothesis Bearing on the determinaI
ton OF sex, scientists have been busy
formulating and cataloging othe
hypotheses relating to the matter IN
question.
Now comes DR.. Z. Apert, OF th1 b
Andral hospital, Paris, with anotherf
and, apparently, a rational hypothesis
which lie Monde Medical publishes a
length in a recent issue Denuded Of
technical and scientific terms, DR.
Aperts deductions and assertions are
From top to bottom in the scale o
life males and females are born In al
most equal numbers, with slight pre-.
ponderance in favor of the so-called
male sex. Among human beings wS
! get approximately 1850 boys agains
1000 girls. These figures differ onl,
slightly in different races, to wit /
France, 1910; Belgium, l,047 Holland
loss; England, 1882; Scotland, l,042 i
Ireland, 1854; Denmark, 1858; Sweden
LOSS; Norway, l0s7; Germany, 1854 I
Russia in Europe, 1854; Austria, 1886 1
Italy, 1857; Spain, l,l02; Portugal
1870; Bulgaria 1869; Connecticuti
1904; Maine, l,048, and Australia, l,0S0I
Among animals the ratio is Oxen 4
l,046 pigs, 1850; sheep, l,lSO; horsest
1910; guinea fowl, 1920; duck, l0s0 4
and silk worm 1000 Among flowera
male and female occur in almost equal
proportions.
Nature in its wisdom has divided al-N
most evenly the sexes; how she conI
trolls this is the problem confronting
science. Observers, says DR.. Apert, wha'
are disposed to agree that the nutritioH,
OF the parents may have bearing ouy
the sex of the child are generally in
accord in thinking that abundant foodt
for the parent predisposes to the birth.
OF girls and vice versa. Certain ex-
periments that have been carried oud
tend to bolster up this theory, but they[
are far from convincing. Cuenot inI
recent and exhaustive experimentation
was unable to discover that nutritionf
had any influence whatsoever
DR.. Apert propounds a theory of hisI
own, which he calls "hirsulism." Inl
on-scientific English this means hy-y
pertrophy of the suprerenal capsules.
The latter are two endless glands stu-l
ated above the kidneys. II is knownl
that they have a marked influence uponl
human welfare. Hypertrophy of the
suprerenal glands, or enlargement,
seems to change the sex qualities ofl
the subject, such as feminrnV the
male and vice versa.
Knowing this, DR.. Robinson. an
English Investigator, experimental up-
on guinea pigs, to the female of which
he administered suprerenal extract in
the form of adrenalin. Out of thirty
offsprings, twenty-five were males.
Conversely injecting choline. which i.
looked upon as a physiological SUBJ
stance antagonistic to adrenaline Rob.
inson obtained % percent females.
Assuming that the influence of adj.
renaline and choline act upon the
human female in similar manner.
science appears TO be in possessim of
the secret of sex determination at will
DR.. Apert gives the following recips
for prospective mothers:
I'm order to have the best chance %
having a son, spend plenty of time in
physical exercise; eat little, never to
the extent Of your appetite. and take
every day an hyperdermic injection Of
one mllligramme Of adrenaline.
Conversely il YOU wish a daughter.
get tat eat heartily plenty of nourish.
ing food; avoid fatigue, and take
daily injection Of choline or lecithine.
the latter a soluble preparation Of the
former"
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