[52]. Manuscript Notes.
[53]. Dr. Badenoch has very satisfactorily shewn that the Coup de Soleil kills by producing apoplexy.
[54]. This does not hold universally, for Beccaria mentions the case of a man whose body became exceedingly stiff, very shortly after having been struck dead by lightning;—and in one of Mr. Brodie’s experiments, the muscles of a Guinea pig killed by electricity became stiff.
[55]. Manuscript Notes.
[56]. Mayer directed his attention very particularly to the appearances which were thus produced, and had drawings made of them. It would appear that they most commonly passed in the direction of the spine.
In the First Volume of the Philosophical Transactions, there is an account of the dissection of a man killed by lightning, but it contains nothing remarkable.
[57]. See also an account of a thunder-storm, by Mr. Brydone, in the 77th vol. of Phil. Trans.
[58]. Morgagni de Sedibus et Causis Morb. Epist. 68. No. 6 and 7.
[59]. Hippocrat. Aphor. 13. Sect. 2.
[60]. Osservaz: intorno agli Anim. viventi, etc. No. 3 et 4.