Manners and Customs of All Nations. No. IV. The Burmese [1/2]
Anon
Genre: | Regular Feature, Serial |
Subjects: | Ethnography, Medical Practitioners |
People mentioned: | Francis H Buchanan |
The writer quotes from Conder 1825–29 concerning the custom of Burmese physicians of undertaking to cure young women on the understanding that they will become the property of the physician if he is successful. | |
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