The pain was brief, and he was then able to see objects distinctly.

From this occasion he steadily improved until he was able to walk about without a guide.
Le Conte mentions the case of a negress who was struck by lightning August 19, 1842, on a plantation in Georgia.

For years before the reception of the shock her health had been very bad, and she seemed to be suffering from a progressive emaciation and feebleness akin to chlorosis.

The difficulty had probably followed a protracted amenorrhea, subsequent to labor and a retained placenta In the course of a week she had recovered from the effects of lightning and soon experienced complete restoration to health; and for two years had been a remarkably healthy and vigorous laborer.

Le Conte quotes five similar cases, and mentions one in which a lightning-shock to a woman of twenty-nine produced amenorrhea, whereas she had previously suffered from profuse menstruation, and also mentions another case of a woman of seventy who was struck unconscious; the catamenial discharge which had ceased twenty years before, was now permanently reestablished, and the shrunken mammae again resumed their full contour.
A peculiar feature or superstition as to lightning-stroke is its photographic properties.