Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1879 — Morbid Curiosity Among Ladies. [ARTICLE]

Morbid Curiosity Among Ladies.

There is a report current that certain fashionable ladies of New York are in the habit of visiting the lecture rooms attached to some of our medical colleges, at the invitation of their student friends there, to witness surgical operations performed on patients, and those sometimes of the most painful description. Our elite are not studying medicine, but, according to the rumor, attend, influenced by a certain morbid curiosity, if not enjoyment, to witness these painful spectacles. After this Paris may no longer claim to be the head center of jaded pleasure-seekers after new excitement. — New York Graphic. A wealthy lad of New York has left the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals a bequest of $25,000. " 1 •