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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER IX
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In another case luminous sparks were given out whenever the patient passed urine.

Marsh relates two cases of phthisis in which the heads of the patients were surrounded by phosphorescent lights.

Kaster mentions an instance in which light was seen in the perspiration and on the body linen after violent exertion.
After exertion Jurine, Guyton, and Driessen observed luminous urine passed by healthy persons, and Nasse mentions the same phenomenon in a phthisical patient.

Percy and Stokes have observed phosphorescence in a carcinomatous ulcer.
There is a description of a Zulu boy exhibited in Edinburgh in 1882 whose body was so charged with electricity that he could impart a shock to any of his patrons.

He was about six-and-a-half years of age, bright, happy, and spoke English thoroughly well.


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