It must be mentioned here that half a century ago Le
Conte wrote a most extensive article on this subject, which, to
the present time, has hardly been improved upon.
The first cases to be recorded are those in which there has been
complete and rapid recovery from lightning-stroke. Crawford
mentions a woman who, while sitting in front of her fireplace on
the first floor of a two-story frame building, heard a crash
about her, and realized that the house had been struck by
lightning. The lightning had torn all the weather-boarding off
the house, and had also followed a spouting which terminated in a
wooden trough in a pig-sty, ten feet back of the house, and
killed a pig. Another branch of the fluid passed through the
inside of the building and, running along the upper floor to
directly over where Mrs. F. was sitting, passed through the floor
and descended upon the top of her left shoulder. Her left arm was
lying across her abdomen at the time, the points of the fingers
resting on the crests of the ilium. There was a rent in the dress
at the top of the shoulder, and a red line half an inch wide
running from thence along the inside of the arm and fore-arm. In
some places there was complete vesication, and on its palmer
surface the hand lying on the abdomen was completely denuded.
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