Word: thebaw
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...Editor Patterson liked the idea, decided to try it. For a month the strip ran along with fairly typical reminiscences of a traveled medical man. Then, last week, it burst out with an extraordinary tale of how Burma's White Elephant was fed, during the rule of King Thebaw. Excerpts...
...Every morning the White Elephant had for his breakfast milk from the breasts of twenty-four women, who knelt naked before him . . . only mothers of recently born children. . . . Dr. O'Malley, surgeon to King Thebaw [was] always required to resuscitate and revive the ones making this sacrifice. The White Elephant walked sedately behind the women and put his trunk over their shoulders. Most of them collapsed after the ordeal, for the White Elephant was very exacting. Beside Dr. O'Malley walked a servant bearing a tray with numerous hypodermics of strychnine, nitroglycerine and other heart stimulants...
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