The fluid crossed, burning her right ear, in
which was a gold ear-ring, and then passed over her throat and
down the left sternum, leaving a burn three inches wide, covered
by a blister. There was another burn, 12 inches long and three
inches wide, passing from just above the crest of the ilium
forward and downward to the symphysis pubis. The next burn began
at the patella of the right knee, extending to the bottom of the
heel, upon reaching which it wound around the inner side of the
leg. About four inches below the knee a sound strip of cuticle,
about 1 1/2 inches, was left intact. The lightning passed off the
heel of the foot, bursting open the heel of a strongly sewed
gaiter-boot. The woman was rendered unconscious but subsequently
recovered.
A remarkable feature of a lightning-stroke is the fact that it
very often strips the affected part of its raiment, as in the
previous case in which the shoe was burst open. In a discussion
before the Clinical Society of London, October 24 1879, there
were several instances mentioned in which clothes had been
stripped off by lightning. In one case mentioned by Sir James
Paget, the clothes were wet and the man's skin was reeking with
perspiration.
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