Tilesius mentions
a peculiar case which was extensively quoted in London. Two
brothers, one of whom was deaf, were struck by lightning. It was
found that the inner part of the right ear near the tragus and
anti-helix of one of the individuals was scratched, and on the
following day his hearing returned. Olmstead quotes the history
of a man in Carteret County, N.C., who was seized with a
paralytic affection of the face and eyes, and was quite unable to
close his lids. While in his bedroom, he was struck senseless by
lightning, and did not recover until the next day, when it was
found that the paralysis had disappeared, and during the fourteen
years which he afterward lived his affection never returned.
There is a record of a young collier in the north of England who
lost his sight by an explosion of gunpowder, utterly destroying
the right eye and fracturing the frontal bone. The vision of the
left eye was lost without any serious damage to the organ, and
this was attributed to shock. On returning from Ettingshall in a
severe thunder storm, he remarked to his brother that he had seen
light through his spectacles, and had immediately afterward
experienced a piercing sensation which had passed through the eye
to the back of the head.
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