The man was brought to the surface insensible, but he afterward recovered.
Permanent Effect of Lightning on the Nervous System .-- MacDonald mentions a woman of seventy-eight who, some forty-two years previous, while ironing a cap with an Italian iron, was stunned by an extremely vivid flash of lightning and fell back unconscious into a chair.

On regaining consciousness she found that the cap which she had left on the table, remote from the iron, was reduced to cinders.

Her clothes were not burned nor were there any marks on the skin.

After the stroke she felt a creeping sensation and numbness, particularly in the arm which was next to the table.

She stated positively that in consequence of this feeling she could predict with the greatest certainty when the atmosphere was highly charged with electricity, as the numbness increased on these occasions.