The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-30
Female Vampires.

4 New York writer relates two cases Of
al inordinate passion for human blood, ss
follows
young lady belonging to respecta-
bic family suffered in health while devoting
herself to her academcal studies. Her
medical attendant, who vouches for the
truth of the story, suggested blood-drink-
ing. Permission and the necessary privacy
were occurred a: West side abattoir. Sal
utary effects were not long in following
The pallor left her check. Her frame be-
came more robust; and in 10 months she
gained Is pounds In weight. From having
been pale aud uninteresting looking girl,
she developed radiaut beauty, and she mar
RED the young assistant of the medical adj
wiser who had saved her life. Wen &c
quainted with the means by which she had
been restored, her husband encouraged her
natural curiosity respecting the effects OF
various kinds of blood; and, probably
quite as much for the purpose of his own
professional information az for the gratiii-
cation of her own wish, lie opened small
artery in his leg and permitted her to suck
the vital tide. An inordnate mania for
her husbands blood forthwith supervened.
He gratifed the craving again and again,
until dgust for her became the predomi-
nant feeling Of his mind, and after he had
done himself great amount of physical in
jury, he babe her final adieu, and sailed
for Peru. The wretcbed young wife now
lies on sick bed, and almost entirely sub
slsts on blood brought her from an abat-
toir. She is monomaniac on this subject,
and had she opportunity, would undoubt-
edly become vampire, and banquet per-
petually on human blood.
The other case was that of n woman %
threatened with decline. By the advice of
physician she took, four times day,
tablespoonful of cod liver oil mixed IN a
wineglass full of blood. The woman was
restored to health, but while she left off
taking the oil she still continued the dose
of blood. At this time her husband met
with on accident on the staircase OF their
house, by which he lacerated the back of
his hand and wrist with broken glass. She
rushed to him in alarm to stem tho flow of
blood but instead of stemming it, che
sucked it until he swooned away, and lay
ghastly exhausted and motionless as one
dead. The timely arrival of the landlady
prevented q fatal catastrophe. The wretch
ed wife was alternately sucking her hus-
bands wrist and bewailing his misfortune
in heert-rending tones. Ter face was
amirched with blood. Her mouth literally
dropped gore. The landlady ct first i'm
agined that she saw before her terrible ac-
cident to the husband that bad eliminated
III the suicide of the wife. The physician
who told the story to a MercuTg reporter
was summoned, aud the horrible fact was
disclosed In the patients progress toward
convalescencc he found it necessary to i'd
minister morphine, and the landlady at
tended the sick and exhausted man. AS
for the wife, she seemed in dreamy, mel
anchOly condition, One evening, four
nights after the accident the patient had
sunk quietly to sleep under the influence
of the narcotic. The wife lay by his side
sullen and unconcerned. An hour after
the landlady, whose suspicious had been
aroused, and who had listened heard q sig
nificant noise, and entered from side
door. The lady was kneeling by the bed
the bandages were removed from her hue-
bands arm and wrist and she was voraci-
ously sucking the fresh blood yelling from
the re-opened wounds The wretched
blood-sucker is now helpless lunatic, and
her husband is sufficiently recovered to 10
out Of doors a short time during the day.
Considered in its abstract scientific aspect,
there does not appear to be any assignable
cause why such dire results should follow.
French surgeons have been devotng con-
siderable attention to the effects of blood
drinking and blood TRANSMISSION. N. Octave
dc Fossey, who, by the way, terms the hu-
man blood "the champagne OF bloods," re-
lates a case that came under his personal
observation where TRANSMISSION Of blood
was used in the case of delicate lady.
Blood from herculean young man was in
fused into her veins on three separate oc-
casions, and she regalned health and yigor.
But with her convalescence she acquired a
masculine voice, and upon her upper lip
was developed hrsute excrescence which
could only be dcsignated-a moustache.
She was so disgusted with her transforma-
ton that relapse followed, during which
she rapidly sank and finally died