Cases of Persons Struck by Lightning
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T he accidents which occur from lightning are generally so instantaneously fatal, that no room is afforded for medical treatment; and few cases I believe are on record, where there is any detail of the appearances in the dead bodies of those who have suffered. In this slight notice of the following cases, which occurred during one thunder-storm, I am sorry I cannot do any thing to supply the last mentioned deficiency ; but the statement of the consequences of the electric shock, and the treatment successfully pursued in the cases not fatal, will, I hope, be not uninteresting.
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