The
abdomen, for a space of four inches in length and eight inches in
breadth, was also blistered. The fluid then passed from the
fingers to the crest of the ilium, and down the outside of the
leg, bursting open the shoes, and passing then through the floor.
Again a red line half an inch wide could be traced from the ilium
to the toes. The clothing was not scorched, but only slightly
rent at the point of the shoulder and where the fingers rested.
This woman was neither knocked off her chair nor stunned, and she
felt no shock at the time. After ordinary treatment for her burns
she made rapid and complete recovery.
Halton reports the history of a case of a woman of sixty-five
who, about thirty-five minutes before he saw her, had been struck
by lightning. While she was sitting in an outbuilding a stroke of
lightning struck and shattered a tree about a foot distant. Then,
leaving the tree about seven feet from the ground, it penetrated
the wall of the building, which was of unplastered frame, and
struck Mrs. P. on the back of the head, at a point where her hair
was done up in a knot and fastened by two ordinary hair-pins. The
hair was much scorched, and under the knot the skin of the scalp
was severely burned.
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