Show A terrible appetite A prominent physician of louisville Louis villo claims to have a case which is unique ia the history of medicine and is that of a child of six years old which has developed an appetite for her own blood the child is that of respectable parents who lire exceedingly sensitive on the subject of the little ones unheard of characteristics and their reluctance to have the made public has prevented the doctor reporting the case for the benefit of the profession ho has however taken into consultation a famous english physician who agrees with him in pronouncing the case unparalleled the child is an intelligent little girl of a gentle disposition and apparently quite healthy ahen aslzee why she wants to suck her blood she declares she is thirsty for it and cannot help doing it her singular appetite is only about BIS weeks duration and waa first noticed by her mother finding her iane morning bathed in blood with a wo and torn in her forearm supposing a rat had bitten her tha doctor was summoned who questioning the child was horrified to he arher frankly state she had inflicted the wound herbrig her brif she has repeated the act somo half a dozen timea since at irregular intervals ter vals and narrowly escaped bleeding to death on one orloo occasions she baa been severely punished for the net but to no avail her parents declare that there is nothing in the family history to explain the thing it is thought the child will outgrow the morbid appetite i j jr L |