ELEPHANT SURGERY
(NJZ. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON. August 13. Enough anaesthetic to subdue 50 persons was used in an operation on Frances, a five-year-old Indian elephant. The operation, in a room under a circus ring at Blackpool. Lancashire, was on Frances’s stomach. It was believed the first of its kind on an elephant. The elephant’s trainer, Mr W. Baker, and four assistants helped a veterinary surgeon who put 100 stitches in the wound.
Frances, worth £5OOO. sat up 14 hours after the operation. Today it was on its feet again.
Frances is on an invalid diet of three dozen pints of milk. 40 loaves of brown bread, four dozen bananas and 151 b of carrots a day.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30211, 16 August 1963, Page 21
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