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...surgeon inspected Kuda Bux's feet. They were not in the least burned; the strip of adhesive tape was not even scorched...
...laid a ton of firewood and over that a wagonload of burnt oak and charcoal. This pyre was drenched with ten gallons of kerosene and ignited. When it had burned for eight hours and a wind had fanned the embers almost to white heat a scrawny young Hindu named Kuda Bux and a group of respectable-looking Britons appeared. Kuda Bux had promised that by faith he would walk barefooted across the glowing...
...temperature of the fire-pit was measured at 800° F. The soles of Kuda Bux's feet were examined and no sign of callous thickening which might afford protection was found. A surgeon stuck a piece of court plaster under the arch of the dusky performer's right foot. Kuda Bux faced his audience, said: "Anything can be done with faith...
...coals, his face contorted. When he had reached the end of the pit, he turned around, walked the length of it again. Requested to make the crossing a third time, he refused, weeping. Going up to Harry Price, secretary of the London Council for Psychical Investigation which had brought Kuda Bux from India and staged the firewalking, the Hindu mumbled...
None of these explanations seemed to cover the case of Kuda Bux in Surrey. The logical man to ask about it was Dr. Charles Aubrey Pannet of University of London and St. Mary's Hospital, the surgeon who examined Bux's feet before and after the ordeal. But Dr. Pannet flatly refused to comment, said he would save his remarks for publication in the Lancet, British medical weekly...