This
case is also quoted and described by Dr. Wilks.
There was a curious case of lightning-stroke reported at Cole
Harbor, Halifax. A diver, while at work far under the surface of
the water, was seriously injured by the transmission of a
lightning-stroke, which first struck the communicating air pump
to which the diver was attached. The man was brought to the
surface insensible, but he afterward recovered.
Permanent Effect of Lightning on the Nervous System.--MacDonald
mentions a woman of seventy-eight who, some forty-two years
previous, while ironing a cap with an Italian iron, was stunned
by an extremely vivid flash of lightning and fell back
unconscious into a chair. On regaining consciousness she found
that the cap which she had left on the table, remote from the
iron, was reduced to cinders. Her clothes were not burned nor
were there any marks on the skin. After the stroke she felt a
creeping sensation and numbness, particularly in the arm which
was next to the table. She stated positively that in consequence
of this feeling she could predict with the greatest certainty
when the atmosphere was highly charged with electricity, as the
numbness increased on these occasions. The woman averred that
shortly before or during a thunder storm she always became
nauseated.
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