Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-06-05
THE PRACTICE OF sLooD-DRlNklNo.
Said to BE Cure for Pulmonary and
Other niseases-Tha Patients.

Said to BE Cure for Pulmonary and
Other Diseases-The Patients.
Comparatively few people are aware
of the extent to which the drinking of
warm blood as it flows fresh from the
dying animal is carried as cure for pull
monary and other diseases.
The increasing number of those who
have recourse to this remedy induced
your correspondent to pay visit to an
abattoir in one of our great cities, at
present favorite resort of invalids of
various sorts.
1t was 10 o'clock in the morning when
arrived, and the men of beeves were
preparing to slaughter twenty head of
cattle for an outgoing European steamer.
A gentleman of about fifty years,
whose once spare figure bore incipient
traces of fieshiness, alighted, and with
an elastic step entered the room.
"Do you find the blood distasteful to
your l asked, after formal introduc-
ton.
mot now; but at first it was disagree
able to me. Then was not able to get
out of my carriage, and the blood was
brought to ME. In short time / could
waddle in here rather feebly, and now
after four months feel pretty strong. I
shall not need to come more than two
months longer
"How does it taste to you ?" asked.
"Like sailed milk, and some put salt in
the blood, but do not feel that it makes
it more palatable."
A second carriage appeared on the
scene, in which was reclining an ele-
gantly dressed but very feeble young
lady, to whom one of the young men APP
preaching the carriage handed small
glass with tube attached, from which
she attempted to imbibe some of the
blood.
The effort was vain, as her aversion
was too PRONOUNCED to be overcome.
Il am afraid can never do it" she re-
marked with sigh, "but / must keep
trying, as it is my only hope"
A puny youth, of pale complexion
and not yet Of age, here entered. He
was a nervous weakling of dwarfish
stature, whose growth had been stunted
by chronic disease.
~ yOu OAPSNt tiut tilC bkOOA WILL
help your" asked.
"Oh, yes. Last summer a friend,
whose case was just like mine, grew
robust and strong and became consider
ably taller after drinking blood for eight
months. l am sure it will do me as
much good as it did him. 1t is only
month since began drinking the blood,
and am much better already. I never
found the taste disagreeable.
A low cry just then announced the ar
rival of stylish carriage from which
careworn lady descended, bearing in her
arms little girl of three years. The
glass tube mode of taking the blood was
resorted to and the child received the
liquid with curiously passive and in
different air.
my child did not have vitality enough
to keep her alive" explained the mother,
in response to my inquiring look. "Her
stomach would retain hardly anything,
not even milk, but she is getting over
this, and think in two or three months
the child will be able to eat as well as
other children"
With hopeful smile she turned to her
carriage and waved the signal of home
to the brass-buttoned coachman.
Il suppose the blood makes great
changes in the personal appearance" 1
said, turning to my friend B.
"Oh, yes, very great changes. One of
the many people who have come here to
drink blood was sickly girl, who con-
tinued to do SO for about six months.
1.-THE first time she saw steer killed
she tainted away, and when she revived
a spoonful of blood was all she could
take. In few days she could bear two
or three spoonfuls, and finally glassful.
She was very pale and consumptive.
"A few weeks after she stopped COM
ing met her on the street, when she
spoke to me, but did not recognize her,
she was so changed. Don't you know
me, she said, L used to come to your
slaughter-house to drink blood She
was stout, healthy woman, and have
heard that she is to be married before
long.
Our visitors never give up while there
is hope. l have known some to come for
eighteen months or two years. One
young man drove here every day in a
coach for over ayear. He came here the
last time on a Friday and died the next
day.
1--WE have cups of blue glass with COW
ers to hide the color of the blood from
patients who are nervous or sensitive"
said Mr. B., as delicate young lady re-
tired
"Of course we charge nothing for blood
unless the visitor chooses to give the nan
bringing the cup cents for catching its
contents. Our patients are mostly women
and young people, who have not much
blood in their veins, or whose blood is
impure and whose system consequently
needs toning up.
"A steers blood is just what they want,
being perfectly pure and Astounding in
iron. A cows blood is never drank, as
it is unfit for the purpose, being liable to
be diseased. philadelphia Call