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...Female rabbits and swine were treated with acid or alkali just before breeding. The Bureau's 2,383 young rabbits and 219 pigs were born with no significant change in the normal sex ratio. The Bureau therefore concluded that douche treatments and alteration of the acidity of the semen were without effect...
...least 2,500 years, man has tried to control the sex of his offspring. In 1932, Dr. Felix Unterberger of Konigsberg, Germany pointed out that semen is normally slightly alkaline, and the female vaginal tract acid. In some marriages, he said, an unusually alkaline semen produces a preponderance of boys, a strongly acid vaginal tract a majority of girls. Sex of children should be controlled, then, by adjusting the acid balance of the vagina. After some animal experiments, Dr. Unterberger tried the method on humans, claimed to have "determined" the birth of 74 boys. His method: mild vaginal douches...
Since, once upon a time, I have had a doubtful privilege of knowing Comrade Semen Budenny personally, please permit me to take a liberty of correcting your information re said Budenny [TIME, Feb. 26]. ... He was not a Kosack, never in his life served as a Kosack, that is in an irregular cavalry, but upon serving his two years, eight months stretch in a regular cavalry, in Nijegorodsni dragoons, he re-enlisted. I don't remember for how many times. Eventually he served in Persia in 1914-17 as a sergeant-major of esquadron 4, same regiment, quartered...
Process of insemination is equally simple. With a syringe a gynecologist introduces a few drops of semen directly into the cervical canal, lower part of the uterus. Best time for artificial insemination is the fertile period occurring from ten days to two weeks after menstruation begins. More complicated are the legal arrangements. Both husband and wife must sign a joint agreement permitting the wife to bear the child of a third person. The identity of the donor is kept secret, and if he is married his wife must give her written consent as well. Other practical suggestions made...
...Graves turned the problem of preserving the vitality of the sperm during shipment over to his crack veterinarian, Dr. Fred W. Miller. From the bulls Dr. Miller extracted semen containing 1,000,000,000 spermatozoa, mixed the fluid with an equal amount of sugar solution, chilled the tubes to 34° F. (spermatozoa kept in warm temperatures lash their tails until they get tired, die). Next he buried the tubes in diatomaceous earth, a good insulator, packaged the whole in a buttermilk container...