Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1876-06-16
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!. UHUMAN VAMPIRES.

The Qhastly Effects Following th
Drinking OF Blood as a
Remedy for Disease.
Blood drinking has become quite popl
/, IL lsts yesni and many invallds dali
q <lskthe1 abattoirs of New York for th
>tSaapose Of drinking the warm life bloc
of the OK: It is q fact-not general
thrown however-that this appetite TO
jNlo0d increases upon those who indulge il
"it Women, who at first quAff with re-
tugnance and some horror wine glass o
the warm crimson gore. gradually acquire
Gsrsving for it, and take down tumbler
~ With evident relish. Parties under
tMsbiood spell almost invariably manifest
B desire to to try the effects of human
blood. Two cases of this kind have been
leported in New York. A young lady
belonging to respectable family suffered
IN health while devoting herself to hel
academica! studies Hef medical servant,
F1hoI vouches for the truth of the story,
suggested blood drinking. Permission
and the necessary privacy were secured at
The sbattoir. Salutary effects were not
long In following. The pallor left her
cheek, her frame became more robust, and
10 ten months she gained fifteen pounds
in weight. From having been pale aud
AninterestIDg-l looking girl she developed
radiant beauty, and she married the young
assistant of the medical advisor who saved
her life. Well acquainted with the means
by which she had been restored, her hus-
band encouraged her natural curiosity re
apecting the effects of various kinds oil
bloed; and probably quite as much for
the purpose OF his own professional in
formation as for the qualification of her
own wish, he opened small artery in his
leg and permitted her to suck the vital
tide. A remarkable mania for her hus-
bands blood forthwith supcrvented. He
gatlf1ed the craving again and again until
disgust for her became the predominant
feeling in his mind; and after he had done
himself vast amount of physical injury.
he badc her final adieu and sailed for
Peru. The wretched young wife now
lies on a sick bed, and almost entirely
subsists on blood brought her from an
ab4kt6k. She is a monomaniac on the
subject, and had she opportunity would (
undoubtedly become a vampire, and han
quet perpetuaIly on human blood. The
other case was that of a woman of twenty L
five threatened with decline. By the adj u
vice of physician she took, four times al
day. . teaspoonful of cod liver oil mixed +
with wine glass of blood. The woman n
was restored to health, but while she left i
Oh taking the oil she continued the dose =
OF blood. At this time her husband met a
with an accident on the staircase of their II
house, by which he lacerated the back oft,
his hand and wrist with broken glass.
She rushed to him in alarm to stem the fowl
OF blood; but instead of stemming it she y
sucked it until he swooned away, and =
lay easily. exhausted and motionless as
Dnc dead. The timely arrival Of the land :
lady prevented fatal catastrophe The =
wife was alternately sucking her
husbands wrist and bewailing his mis- y
fortune in heart-rending tones. Her face n,
was smirched with blood. Her mouth a,
literally dropped gore. The landlady atIo.
arst imagined that she saw before her a
terrible accident to the husband that had
eliminated in the suicide Of the wife.-|C
Albany Argus. u