The object of this article will be to record a sufficient number of cases of lightning-stroke to enable the reader to judge of its various effects, and form his own opinion of the good or evil of the injury.

It must be mentioned here that half a century ago Le Conte wrote a most extensive article on this subject, which, to the present time, has hardly been improved upon.
The first cases to be recorded are those in which there has been complete and rapid recovery from lightning-stroke.

Crawford mentions a woman who, while sitting in front of her fireplace on the first floor of a two-story frame building, heard a crash about her, and realized that the house had been struck by lightning.

The lightning had torn all the weather-boarding off the house, and had also followed a spouting which terminated in a wooden trough in a pig-sty, ten feet back of the house, and killed a pig.

Another branch of the fluid passed through the inside of the building and, running along the upper floor to directly over where Mrs.F.was sitting, passed through the floor and descended upon the top of her left shoulder.