She preferred that flowing fresh from a recent wound.
Further Examples of Depraved Appetites.--Bijoux speaks of a
porter or garcon at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris who was a
prodigious glutton. He had eaten the body of a lion that had died
of disease at the menagerie. He ate with avidity the most
disgusting things to satiate his depraved appetite. He showed
further signs of a perverted mind by classifying the animals of
the menagerie according to the form of their excrement, of which
he had a collection. He died of indigestion following a meal of
eight pounds of hot bread.
Percy saw the famous Tarrare, who died at Versailles, at about
twenty-six years of age. At seventeen he weighed 100 pounds. He
ate a quarter of beef in twenty-four hours. He was fond of the
most revolting things. He particularly relished the flesh of
serpents and would quickly devour the largest. In the presence of
Lorenze he seized a live cat with his teeth, eventrated it,
sucked its blood, and ate it, leaving the bare skeleton only. In
about thirty minutes he rejected the hairs in the manner of birds
of prey and carnivorous animals. He also ate dogs in the same
manner. On one occasion it was said that he swallowed a living
eel without chewing it; but he had first bitten off its head.
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