Remarkable case of the effect of lightning on the human body : with general observations on the nature and phenomena of lightning. Adapted for general readers / by John Davies.

  • Davies, John, 1796-1872.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Remarkable case of the effect of lightning on the human body : with general observations on the nature and phenomena of lightning. Adapted for general readers / by John Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    gical treatment here adopted difters very materially from the common method used in cases of a similar nature. The Author hopes that the example now afforded, as well as the numerous facts adduced in a work lately published by him, entitled Selections in Pathology and Surgery,” will be the means of directing the attention of the Profession to a plan of treat- ment in local affections, which the experience of eleven years in its use, both in Infirmary and in private practice, has proved to be so very superior to the usual methods. But the fortunate issue of the present Case is also greatly attributable to the conveniences afforded by a public Infirmary; for, even under the most skilful treatment, injuries of so exten- sive a nature stand but a very distant chance of a favourable termination amidst the filth and confinement of a poor man’s cottage. As the case of Mr. Cannon, of which mention is occasionally made in the following pages, did not come under the Author’s care, he abstains from offering any remarks upon it, and merely alludes to it as an auxiliary illustration of the effect of lightning on the body. %