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| THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING UPON CANCER
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| SIR,-As I am not aware that the records of the healing art furnish any
case of cancer having yielded to the influence of lightning, I venture to
draw the attention of the numerous readers of THE LANCET to the following
remarkable case, which may awaken due interest in the curative value of
electricity in diseases of a malignant type. Many years ago I heard the
late Dr. Golding Bird express an opinion to the effect that electrical
sparks drawn from a cancerous structure until an eruption is produced was
the only reliable means of cure which he could endorse. In confirmation of
the theory of the celebrated electrician, I beg to submit an extraordinary
instance of the therapeutic freaks of atmospherical electricity in the
cure of cancer. The case loses none of its interest on the plea of
antiquity. About thirty years ago, I attended Reuben S,---, a farm labourer, residing at Langtoft, on the Yorkshire Wolds, who suffered from cancer of the inferior lip and part of the chin for about a year, and who had agreed to an operation for their removal. In the meantime he under took to assist a poor farmer for a day in ploughing his land. During this Occupation he was struck down by lightning, and carried home in a state of insensibility. Both of his horses were killed, and the wooden beam of the plough was split and reduced to considerable fragments. Soon after the occurrence I visited, and found the ploughman in a state of great prostration, and emitting a strong odour of ozone, indicating electrical condensation of the adherent oxygen. As soon as reaction took place I bled him from the arm, which act constituted the whole of the treatment. What seems to be the most astonishing feature in the case is the healing process which was set up in the lip and chin soon after the accident. The cancer gradually lessened, and in a few weeks every trace of the diseased structure disappeared, and for ten years he enjoyed complete freedom from his former suffering and signs of the disease. In proof of the specific and hereditary character of the disorder, I may sate that the patient's granddaughter, Mrs. P-, of Driffield, lately became the subject of a cancerous tumour over the larynx, which growth, assisted by Dr. Rames, I removed successfully a few weeks ago, and under the persistent use of arsenical treatment the cure seems to be satisfactory. In S-'s case the electrical fluid seemed to form and pass through two small holes in the head-band of his trousers, and to make its exit by corresponding apertures. After this remarkable exemption from all cancerous development for so long a period, the disease reappeared, and, after a year of intense suffering, proved fatal ; still leaving the inference unaffected, that the imponderable element secured for the patient an extension of life, and ten years' relief from the distressing consequences of carcinoma, which circumstance establishes my faith in the therapeutic power of electricity in scirrhous indurations. From the foregoing representation, it is evident that frictional electricity may in good hands become one of the most powerful therapeutic agents in the dispersion of cancerous formations. When cellular hypertrophy takes place in localities favourable to the development of epithelial disease, frictional electricity might be employed for the purpose of destroying the morbid cells, whether in their incipient or advanced stages of progression. The authorities of the London Cancer Hospital will be unfaithful to their honourable trust should they decline to test to the fullest extent the curative effects of frictional electricity in some of the most hopeless variety of diseases to which humanity is exposed. I shall not venture upon any theory of the specific action of electricity on morbid depositions but consign the whole question to the abler readers of your incomparable journal.
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I remain, Sir, yours &c.,
A. ALLISON,
M.D.,
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Has anyone had health problems relieved by Lightning / eletrical shock? I was struck april 20 2001.I have dealt with severe exema on my hands for several years, but since the Lightning strike my hands healed almost completly. For how long I don't know. Anyone have a similar experience or input? http://www.mensanaclinic.com/discus/messages/4/49.html?ThursdayJanuary2420021145am click here or here
"I'm feeling like my body is light. It's the best I've probably felt as far as
energy in 10 years."
John Corson, 56, a day after being struck by lightning.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/26/national/main631934.shtml
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I'm seeking the name of the lady - or her
husband or family members - who was struck by lightning while running her bath
while living in Oklahoma. She had had a crippling type disease and her symptoms
were cured after the lightning strike.
I believe this woman and family since moved elsewhere. The episode guide online
says the episode aired on March 29, 1996.
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/archive/index.php/t-166983.html
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> ...... I saw a most interesting program about a woman who > was struck by lighting and completely healed of the viral > disease she had. I think it was MS, and the doctors > said she would never walk again. She was running water > for her bath when her metal leg brace came in contact with the > iron tub. She was by eye witness accounts, blown across the > room from the lightning bolt and found several feet from her wheel > chair. http://www.pupman.com/listarchives/2002/May/msg00995.html click here or here
......... At the village where the cars stopped, we listened with
much amusement to the story of a fat, comfortable-looking individual, who was
cured by lightning in the following manner:–He was in the last stage of a
decline, when, one hot July morning, he was knocked down by a thunderbolt, a
ball of fire, which entered his side, ran all through his body, and came out at
his arm. At the place where the ball made its exit, a large ulcer was formed,
and when it dispersed he found himself in perfect health, in which he has
continued ever since! In such cases the "bottled lightning" demanded by Mrs.
Nickleby's admirer, might be a valuable remedy.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/calderon/mexico/mexico-I.html
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The therapeutic effect of lightning-stroke is verified by a number of cases, a few of which are mentioned in the following book :
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed.
by GEORGE M. GOULD, A.M., M.D. and WALTER L. PYLE, A.M., M.D.
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CHAPTER XIV. Miscellaneous Surgical Anomalies. http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/tech/medicine/AnomaliesandCuriositiesofMedicine/chap14.html |
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Anyway, here is relevant text from Chapter 14 of this book :
........ The therapeutic effect of lightning-stroke is verified by a number of cases, a few of which will be given. Tilesius mentions a peculiar case which was extensively quoted in London. Two brothers, one of whom was deaf, were struck by lightning. It was found that the inner part of the right ear near the tragus and anti-helix of one of the individuals was scratched, and on the following day his hearing returned. Olmstead quotes the history of a man in Carteret County, N.C., who was seized with a paralytic affection of the face and eyes, and was quite unable to close his lids. While in his bedroom, he was struck senseless by lightning, and did not recover until the next day, when it was found that the paralysis had disappeared, and during the fourteen years which he afterward lived his affection never returned. There is a record of a young collier in the north of England who lost his sight by an explosion of gunpowder, utterly destroying the right eye and fracturing the frontal bone. The vision of the left eye was lost without any serious damage to the organ, and this was attributed to shock. On returning from Ettingshall in a severe thunder storm, he remarked to his brother that he had seen light through his spectacles, and had immediately afterward experienced a piercing sensation which had passed through the eye to the back of the head. 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. .....................
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American Journal of Science 3:100, 1821
"Case of a Paralytic Affection, Cured by a Stroke of Lightning" D.
Olmsted
American Journal of Science 6:329, 1823
"Cure of Asthma by a Stroke of Lightning" R. Emerson
Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery 13:162, 1846
"Effects of Lightning" J. Leconte
Lancet 1:77, 1880
"Therapeutic Effects of Lightning Upon Cancer" A. Allison
" An Account of the Effect of Lightning in Discussion
of a Tumor of the Breast " A. Eason.
Medical and Philosophical Comment 4:82, in "Miscellaneous or Philosophical
Extracts from different authors with some originals", T Dolson (Ed),
Philadelphia, Volume 2, pp 295-300, 1776.
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American Journal of Science 6:329, 1823
"Cure of Asthma by a Stroke of Lightning" R. Emerson
American Journal of Science 3:100, 1821
"Case of a Paralytic Affection, Cured by a Stroke of Lightning" D.
Olmsted
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The theme of rejuvenation by lightning has been used by Mircea Eliade.
Recently, Francis Ford Coppola ( creator of "The Goodfather", "Apocalypse" etc) make it a movie titled : YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH http://www.ywyfilm.com/
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