The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-25
1.-THE BLOOD CURE"
eatantS Who Drink at the 7hirty-fourth
Street and Other Abattoirs.
THE THIRST FOR BLOOD.
Butchers Claim 1t WIN. Cure-Physicians
Say It Is Dangerous.

II has boon said that the vitality Of expiring
animals unites with tho atmosphere and Is absorbed
by those people who are Immediately about the body
nj tho time OF death. This vitality is known to exist
tho blood, and IL Is not surprising then that thore
are persons who daily visit the abattors TO catch the
hot blood OF the bullock and, drinking It, noursh and
sustain their exhausted vitality. Such is uay
the cse and the abator at the loot of Thirty fourth
street and North River is the recipient OF tho most
patronage and numbers among It's patients or Gus
toners tho greatest variety OF diseases Tho blood s
drank principally for consumption and debility and
Tor diseases and complaints Of Kindred nature. But
there have been OF almost miraculous
cures, It Is stated, particularly among children, or
vcroiulous diseases and diseases OF the bonos.
DRANK.
visit to the slaughter house the foot or Thirty.
furth street was made yesterday by the writer Pass
Ing through the long lines OF boot, dressed and ready
Tor the Market to the centre OF the huge building the
shambles arc found. Great, sturdy men, with arms
bare to the shoulder and dyed with blood stood within
small enclosure, and hanging before them was
Texan steer still warm and tho blood dripping from
Tho cash In his throat. The implements OF slaughter
lay about, and the light struggling through the win
dows overhead and reflected from the blood.soaxed
floor cast a reddish tint upon everything Tho steer
was oWcIou W tuc uoOEs uuu, WHiio sHe nluo WAS
being rapidly from his body. the writer turned
TO ono Of the attendants and said
'.Do people come here TO drink bloodf"
"Lord bless you, yes; lots Of them. Have glassP's
and the CORY Hercules stopped down for small dip.
per that stood near by. The writer, begging to DO
cuscd, continued the conversation.
''What do they drink IL for2"
"Wel, Tor all kinds OF things 1t will cure almost
anything If you only think it will Consumption
~
drink u to get fat and tat people who think they're
wcak TO get strong"
''Has u an unpleasant faster"
"oh, no; tastes something like warm milk" and
here the man made q motion If to get some which
he writer hastily checked.
.'Can people come and drink quantity OF It the first
timer"
"vcry seldom. Most people are afraid Of II at first
but they get to like II after awhile Ladies are the
worst; they make awful faces the first few times, but
they take to II in the end just II IL lager"
"Do you have many ladies' come for it9'
.Lots! Almost every day have some and Il
does them good, too. Why there used to be young
lady come here every morning In her carriage. The
hrst time she came sho looked very bad. She was
white and thin and did not get out OF tho carriage,
because she was not able 10 ! suppose Well, she
made an awful iuss about 1t. though, she going
to FAINT when she saw the glass full that was brought
her. take IL away she said and SO It WIS taken
away. That day she managed to get down a teaspoon
lul OF after terrible fuss. But she got Ike 1t
like all the rest, and It wasn't long before she could
lake tumper OF II and smack her lips, too She got
latter and latter all the time, and she docs not
come ANY more, aud suppose she Is cured"
'Do they ever take the blood home with Ihem s''
"iakc II homer No, Sir; they have got to drink 1t
when u Is fresh, or else IL will get cottcd and they
10 wait few minutes until we kill fresh s.eer. just
as soon as the throat il cut the blood spurs out ana
II right down."
What Is the social position Of tho patentssv
"Wc, some are rich and some are poor; but they
Oil meet on common ground when they come here.
VI course we take more interest In women than
In men; that's natural, you know; aud then the
women always seem more grateful when they are
:ured than men do. There was an Old man who cam 9
here once, and he used 70 grumbe II the blood was
could and then up and told him morning that VIC
aid not run u bar. Alter that he easy and
look nis blood as quiet as any one
1T IS said Nv some people, particularly DOCTORS
that the habit OF drinking blood is a dangerous one.
because person cngenders passion for Il stronger
shao even Tor liquor. The more they drink the more
hey wantp'
nythlng about IL. They don't want their patients 10
trink hood Why, because they would get well then,
Ind that would ruin their business. II people would
op eating meat we should have TO 90 out oil the Dust,
aess and II people would stop getting sick what would
The markets. any OF them and ask the butchers they
evor have consumption when they work around iresn
meat; No. sr. they don't, ana many man has been
AS Tor the love OF H. they all kent we'll enough after
they get used to it and have hoard 81 men who have
drunk ~ regularly Tor years, but never heard there
was anything queer about them"
THE BATH OF ESrRAILs
The men about the slaughter houses speak not only
Of cases Of consumption cured but also Of deormitcs
ana sweilines made we'll The OF child, u lite
girl ABOUT four years OF age that brought tho
abaitor almost daily during tho past summer Is a
case IA point Wncn she hrst appeared sho was
aud pale. Sue was afflicted, IL was stated With in
Mandatory rheumatism or something OF that nature,
aud one OF her leg, WAS drawn out OF shape The little
thing was indeed sufferer, ana was regarded with
. ANXIOUS eyes by the sturdy mon. Hor father had
heard that the pauncn of steer placed around the
diseased limb would have beneficial effect, and mad
come 10 try the experiment upon his daughter. The
Butchers strong IN their peefoi the efficacy their pet
theories advised hun by ali means 10 do offered
TO prepare the bath VI cntras When tho next bullock
had been killed ana tho hide cut open stomach
was taken out and It's contents placed n barrel or
large tuo The little girl was now brought forward
and prepared Tor plunge into the horrible mass.
Frightened almost 10 death she at the rrlpe
s.gnt To her. OF slaughtered ANIMALS and boodsta ned
men but Notwithstanding her screams and struggles,
sDc was forced cet foremost into the still warm
trails. This treatment was repeated time TO
time during the summer with marked beneficial re.
suits. IL Is claimed that the htte girl has almost
entirely recovered. several CAGES Of scrouleus pa
tents cured mentioned by tne habuts OF mar
kct, ana two cases these were children ono
case, as related 10 the writer by AN nan who has
spcal all his lie about markets, horrible
in details than the case OF the little gIr mentioned
above. She brought 10 the Jersey City abattoir
by friends who proposed to treat her Tor scroiula.
The tub was prepared as In the Other case, and tho
rcekng mass iitlle Jennie, for that II
her lame, was placed up TO her neck. The old man
SAID the elect was TO make her deathly sick at FIRST
but she at last became accustomed II Just mo
blood drinkers become accustomed to the beverage
She was also supposed TO nave been cured, and al
though IL was not possible 10 npd any VINO knew
her name or what had finally become Of her ono
about the market to whom the subject preached
had any doubt whatever as to her maj recovery.
"rhe man with the witbercd arm, is another recoI-
lection OF the haJius OF the place. aud they also pro-
rounco him cured. lie would come day after day
with that his nrst coming entirely use.
less, and when the paunch OF y bullock opened
into tub be would minersc the wthcred arm up to
the shoulder and let " remain there Tor fifteen or
twenty minutes. The mcn imagined that no grew
stronger, the patient was sure no did and 1t Is stated
Tor Tact that he at least partially the use OF
his