Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-26
BLOOD DRINKING.
"Upb 1 can never drink it. I"

The speaker was a pale-faced and deli. |
cate girl, evidently an invalid. She was
we'll dressed and evidently child OF
plenty; but her eyes told of suffering; the
blue veins in one outstretched hand showed
through the pale skin /; cough followed
her exclamation of half disgust. She was
about to become blood. drinker. Her
companion, to whom she spoke, did not
seem herself to look with much longing on
the dark red fluid which filed glass out
stretched in the rough but kindly hand OF
a stalwart butcher. Still she encouraged
the invalid girl so drink. Bracing herself,
and with look of determination the girl
drained the glass at draught. Her face
seemed paler THAI ever when the last OF the
liquid had passed her thin lips, but there
was nevertheless pleased and determined
look in her eyes. She had taken the hrst
step and had not found blood so bad
beverage as she had anticipated. She
might recover her strength and health
again, and for this she had visited the
abattoirs of Butchertown.
BLOOD DRINKING on THE INCREASE.
Although the blood drinking for health
at Butchertown has been previously "wrlt-
ten up, it is so much on the increase that
the subject takes on new interest. Prob
ably not less than two scores of persons are
regular visitors to Butchertown. They are
principally young persons, betw cen twenty
and thirty years of age, young men and
women. Some go to Butchertown IN their
own carriages. More are poor people, who
/ walk slowly over the long bridge from
where the cars leave them, and enter the
- hi fr
ride prefer to walk, never having wholly
conquered a certain sensitiveness on the
subject of blood drinking, They are re-
gaining their health. They are proud of
that and of their own efforts to that end.
but do not care to attract any unnecessary
notice. Only in very few instances has
blood drinking failed to benefit the con-
sumptive or debilitated, according to the
testimony at the abattoirs. Following the
good old rule, from death comes life. A
reporter for the Bulletin, who had been a
witness of the scene detailed at the begin
ming of this article, visited the abattoirs
to make inquiries on this subject. Enter
ing one of a long row of black, unpainted
wooden buildings, he came upon scene of
J slaughter indeed. Scores of carcasses hung
/ from strong beams, and the odor of meat
filled the building. At the further end OF
the building several muscular and good
natured young men, dressed in overslls and
red flannel shirts, stood
| WAITING AN EXPECTED EVENT.
Into small inclosure presently were
driven number of handsome cattle. They
were followed by young man who prod
ded and urged them with the blunt side OF
an ak. Hardly were the cattle in the pen
when the ak began to fall. In less time
than it takes to tell it, ten stunned but not
lifeless cattle were on the floor of the abat-
toir. Deity they were rolled out and
placed in a row, with the feet all one way.
Now each of the red-shirted young men
put an edge on keen knife with long
circular "steel" which dangled from his
side. The keen knives severed the iugular
veins of the recumbent cattle, and the floor
| was stained with blood. Under snch cir
cumstances, shrinking and timid youn g
| girls have come sensitively up to make
their first experiment. Close at hand is a
| tumbler, and while the blood is warm it is
| caught in this and handed to the patient.
1t must be drunk warm. A girl who has
taken this treatment has been known to
gain twenty pounds in weight in few
months. George Lowenberg hands daily
several cups or glasses of the liquid to the
sick. He allows the use of his Office and
has won the gratitude of many by making
easv the ordeal