Alton did not show the slightest trace of emotion, and gave no explanation of the motive or circumstances of his horrible deed; he was executed.
D'Amador tells of persons who went into slaughter-houses and waste-places to dispute with wolves for the most revolting carrion.

It is also mentioned that patients in hospitals have been detected in drinking the blood of patients after venesections, and in other instances frequenting dead-houses and sucking the blood of the recently deceased.

Du Saulle quotes the case of a chlorotic girl of fourteen who eagerly drank human blood.

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.