Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — Test of a Weak Stomach. [ARTICLE]

Test of a Weak Stomach.

The Zoothermic Institute in Rome is a “cure” place where people go to drink fresh blood for the cure of gout, rheumatism, and the great prostration and anaemia caused by the malarial fevers of the Tontine marshes. The blood to be imbibed is first rapidly freed from fibrin by a careful aseptic method, the animals from which it is derived having previously undergone inspection by a veterinary surgeon. Some patients bathe either a part or the whole of the body in the warm blood, and, the Italian doctors think, with great benefit.