The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-17
BLOOD DRINKERS.
The New Treatment for Pulmo'
nary Diseases.
How the Patients take their Medi.
cine at the Crescent City
Siaughter-HOuse.
The Effects of the Draught.

1t is comparatively within the past few
years that physicians have recognized the
vital properties OF blood when taken as a
| drink. When it was first proposed to give
debilitated persons beef blood as medicine,
| the ides was laughed at until the remarkable
| attracted the attention of the medical world,
when considerable change took place, and
| the abattoirs of Paris were daily crowded with
people suffering from pulmonary complaints
The treatment was introduced a short time
| ago in New York city with success, and of
| late it has gained ground here.
A prominent physician, chemist and scien-
| fist of our city, having under his charge Mr..
| Thomas Cooney, long and favorably known in
| his connection with our steamboat trade, re-
| commended the drinking of warm beef blood
as a sovereign remedy for his debilitated con-
stitu.ion. From the doctors analyses he
| found that no substance contained such nu-
| tritive we'll as stimulating qualities for the
| human organism as the blood Of healthy beef.
| There is one her remedy for these debil-
| itative diseases which ranks, it is said, even
| higher in its wonderful properties than this
and that it is the milk of the mare peculiarly
| fermen;ed by the Cassacks on the steppes OF
rartary. This, however owing to its charac-
| ter, is not susceptible of transportation, and
| hence invalids in America have recourse to
| the beef blood.
Yesterday afternoon representative OF the
BULLETIN, in company with several patients
who are undergoing this treatment, repaired
to the Slaughter Houses of the Crescent City
Live Stock Landing Association, below tho
Barracks, for the purpose of witnessing the
manner i'll which this heroic medicine was
taken.
After iaunt Of some fifty minutes over the
city lailroAd cars We arrived at the Slaughter
House, and awaited further denouements
Platoon after platoon OF butchers began to
put in an appearance upon the scene, some OF
them evidently impatient to witness the CORY
sight of the animals slaughter. At last, how
ever, the majog-domo OF the occasion made
his debut in the person OF Bob Aaron, the
sch0cheH or killer for the Hebrew congrega-
tons of our city. He was jovial fellow.
rather small in stature aud evidently of Eng
lish birth. He had studied, he said, four
years under the former butcher for the
Hebrews here before he became qualified to
thoroughly inspect an animal according to
the Jewish laws.
[ was not every beef that was submitted to
the pole ak of the ordinary butcher that they
would pronounce good. 1t required a thor
ough knowledge Of the diseases Of the DO
vines, and the Indications such diseases made
upon the internal organs OF the animals be-
fore a man was allo we'd to slaughter for the
Jews. The experience necessary was only to
be gathered by long noyitiate in the bust
ness.
After an interesting conversation with
Aaron, the party visited the killing stall,
where a large black and white spebkled beef
awaited his fat to be slaug altered. II be-
longed to Diffeuthal & Solomon, the hebrew
butchers of Magaz ne M.rket, and was a
handsome specimen OF its species, being
plump and wel-rouuded.
At given signal two boys passed q Slip
moose around the hind legs of the animal, to
the beef was hoisted up, leaving only his fore
shoulders resting upon the floor, the better
to secure the rapid descent OF the blood
towards the fore quarters. The head was
thrown back, exposing the throat fully, and
placing the beef In not very envlable posi-
ton. Aaron stepped forward, and seeing that
the animal could not move SO as to prevent
the full effect of the one sweeping blow he
was about to give, drew forth knife of about
two feet and half in length and keen as
razor.
Carefully posing the blade, he drew it with
one strong sweep across the throat, severing
opening every vein and artery exposed.
The beef made no Struggle, but seemed to
relinquish himself to fate.
AS the CORY food poured out, the tumblers
of those blood drinkers present were rapidly
passed to Aaron, who, as soon as they were
filled, handed them to the awaiting patients.
The blood was of remarkably bright crimson
color, marked contrast to that of other beef
killed before by the other butchers, and it
appeared that the animal held gallons
As soon as each lumber, holding pint,
was fied the invalids would take the warm
draught down before it had time to become
coagulated, and none of them appeared
the least nauseated at the dose. The
taste was similar to that one experiences
when a finger is cut and involuntarily put
into the mouth. A sort of sweetish salty
flavor, not unlike that of fresh milk, which
flavor remains in the mouth for long time.
The ladies present who partook of the blood
did not seem to dislike the draught half as
much as they would a dose of cod liver oil.
1t is true there was some joking on the
part of those who did. not indulge, but this
had no effect. According to the directions OF
their physicians none drank from the blood
of beet killed by other than Jewish butchers,
their close examination of the animal making
it next to impossible for any disease to be
After the blood had ceased to flow from the
neck, Aaron opened the chest of the beef and
carefully scrutinized the organs, searching for
the least sign of disease, even Of the slightest
character. In this instance, it proved how
ever, that the beet was perfectly healthy, and
Aaron placed upon it a Hebrew seal with
the word kosher, "good," stamped upon it.
In some instances, the beef killed by Aaron,
upon examination proves not to be of the re-
quired quality, when it is refused and sold to
the outside butchers.
The stimulating effect of the blood was
upon those who had taken it. As
they described it, it was like taking strong
glass of liquor after long abstinence "a
sort of exhllarating sensation approaching
that of alcohol
Satisfied with the prescription for one day,
the party took the cars HON rewards.
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