The Osceola times., 1880-12-04
DRINKING BLOOD.
Lew Dsbnitatsd Persons lake Their Ma
tuu al Drauehss At the Crescent City.

usw D~bylitatsd Persons Take TAsir Ma
tuu al praushss at the Crescent City.
Now Orleans Democrat
II Is comparatively only within the
last few years that the medical world
has recognized the vital properties Of
blood when taken by the mouth rs a
remedy against phthisis, or, as il is mure
commonly known, consumption. Re.
cently a reporter OF the Democrat visited
the Crescent City slauehterhouse, below
the Barracks, for the purpose OF witness
ing come patients take their daily drafts
of gore. and lbs visit was not without
recompensc. Meeting the .epial super
iutendent, Mr.. John DJlhonde he gave
many details of blood.drinking which
few people of our city know Of He said
fhnt there are now as daily drinkers
some three or four ladies and as many
gentlemen. They reach the slaughter
house by the cars from Canal street by
about noon, and stand near the slaugh.
ter pens awaiting the killing OF an
animal. A beef is driven into the pen
End the door is closed. A butcher aloit
ON 4 scaffolding, armed with long spear
headed pole, watches his opportunity
and with a sudden thrust, drives the
steel point deep into the base Of the
steers brair.. The animal, paralyzed by
the blow, drops to the floor, when sec
opd butcher advances, and after cutting
down q portion Of the skin, sewers the
arteries OF the neck, and crimson tide
flows out. The ladies' have their large
mint glasses ready, and the butcher
catches the blood flowing in a pulsating
stream from the neck and passes 1t out,
when the patients drink it down while
still warm and before il has lime to CO.
agulate. After the slight feeling OF dis
gust at the first draught has passed away
the patients apparently relish it and do
not evince the least sign of hcsitancy in
taking ii. The taste is a sweeiish, salty
ono. not very different from that ofsweet
milk, and is likened to that experience
when cut finger is Involuntary put in
ones mouth TO stop the pain. This taste
fingers In the mouth for considerable
time, but the blood drinkers do not
complain of it as being unpleasant.
Mr.. Dolhonde says that be has noticed
several remarkable results from it. One
q young lady who, when she first went
down, looked i'll AMI far gone with con-
sumption. He could mention her name,
hut 1t would not be proper. After some
weeks trial drinking blood she began to
improve, and to-day IS well and hearty.
He mentioned several other cases where
like good results had come from 1t, but
said some came down there in the last
stages of consumption. when of course 1t
was too late to do any good.
The ladies generally came TO his Office
and he, with pleasure, escorted them to
the pens about killing time, which is
after IL o'clock.
The reporter then waited for some OF
the drinkers to appear, and presently a
lady exceedingly thin, with hectic
flush on either cheek, got out of thecars,
and securing her glass, started with her
escort down the walk leading to the
abattoir. A large milk white beef had
Just been driven In one of the pens, and
overhead with pole poised, his exccu-
toner stood waiting for favorable oppor-
tunity to strike. The blow falls, the
brute lies trembling on the floor and in
q moment the knife at his throat has
opened the food gates of his life-tide.
The lady's glass was quickly filled aid
as quickly handed to her. Without be-
traylng the least emotion she pressed
the crimsoned beaker 10 her lips, and
without withdrawing it swallowed it's
contents and turned away, as if she had
Just partaken OF soda water. There was
none OF that gaeeing and nausea that
cod.liver oil excites, and the effect
appeared to be almost as stimulating
and exhilerating rs glass of champagne.
A brighter color came to her cheeks. and
her eyes seemed to gain brllliancy
they had not before.