Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-01-08
Drinking Hot Blood.

Recently reporter visited the Crescent
City slaughter houso. Nav Orleans. for the
purpose of Witnessing some pstients take their
dsily DRAFT of gore. Meeting the supariueu-
deDt 70 gave naDy details Of blood drinking
which f>w people know Of. He said that there
arc new as daily drinkers some three or four
ladies and tho same number of gentlemen. A
beet IS driven into the per, sDt the door is
closed. A butcher aloft 90 scsffoldios, armed
With org smear headed pole, watches bis op-
portunity, aid With sudden thrust drives the
steel point dsep into the base of tho steers
brain. Tho animal parsl, Esd By the blow,
drops to the Il jor, when second butcher sd.
vsnces AID, after cutting down a portion Of tho
SKID. sewers the arteries OF the neck, ard Grim.
son tide Il TVS out. The ladies havs their la,re
pint glasses ready, and the butcher catches tho
blood OWING 10 pusatiug stream from the
neck and psssts 1t out, Wheo tho patients drink
1t doSa Willie still warm and before it has lms
to coigu'ute: After he slight fseiug Ct dis
gust at the first drsught has passed awsy, the
patients Eppsreutly relish it and do 60: eviucs
the least sign of hesltanoy 10 taking it. The
taste ls a twsctish salty ore. not very different
from thst OF sweet milk. aud is likened to tha.
experienced when cut finger is irvoluntarily
put 10 ones mouth to stop the paio. This taste
llogers 10 tho mouth for considerable time.
but the blood drirksrs do Got complain Of it as
balog unpleasant.
The superintendent says that lie has noticed
several remarkable results from it. Ono-a
young ladS-who, when she frat went down to
the slaughter house. looked excoedirgly i'll and
tar gone with consumption. After some weeks
trial drinking blood. she b,2ao to improve ard
to day Is we'll aud hearty. 10 mentioned sew.
eral other cases where like good results had
oome from 1t, but said s,me came down there
10 the last stages of consumption, when, of
curse, it WAC too late to do any good.
Tho ropofte. then waited for some OF the
drinkers to appear and presently a lady, ex-
ceedingly thin, with q hectic flush on either
cneeS, got out OF the csrs, and securing her
glass, started with her eEoort down the walk
leading TO the aoattoir. a large milk white
beet hsd just been driven in one OF tie pens, aud
overhead with pole poised, his e1ecutiouer
stood awaiting favorable opportunity to strike.
The blow falls, the brute lies trembling on the
1oor, and IN Toment the knife st his throat
has opened the food gates of his life tide. The
lhdy's glass was quickly filed, and as quickly
handed to her. Without betrayins the least
em o!on, she pressed the crimson beaker to her
lips, and. without Withdrawing it, swallowed its
contents snd turned away as it she Ind Just par.
taken of some soda water. 1here was none of
that gsgging and nausea that cod-liver oil e.
cites, and the effect appeared to bs almost as
stimulating and exhiarsting as glass of oasm.
paSue. brighter color came 10 her checks and
Ter eyec seemed to gain o brillsncy they had
not before.
The treatment, to be Of benefit! il is said, must
30 kept up some nouths regularly taking glass
every d-y.