Suspended Animation by drowning, 125 



powerful on the left ear for three or four hours. It caused in tlie head a ringf- 



ing like the ringing of tumblers. The residue of the familj, three children, 



were in bed in the chambers, and not otherwise affected than by a start by 

 the report. 



A neighbour six rods distant standing at his door was stunned and fallings 

 but was caught by his family. 



Another family in a small building two rods distant only affected by the 

 report — at the north-West comer of the room, a large heavy table and 

 chair moved two feet from the wall, the whole ceiling started. The fiuiJ 

 passed down after leaving my body, between the sill and a stone step through 

 the wall and four feet downwards throwing off much pointing. The dotted 

 line the south side shews the course of the fluid on the cellar wall — the residue 

 its course on the sill, floor or plank on the north side, west on the ground in-* 

 juring; the house and furniture more or less. I had been out in a little dash 

 of rain ten minutes before the shock — the clothes were moist. 



'Several strokes of lightning apparently from the same explo- 



sion. 



*« 



Extractor a letter to the Editor from Gen. Ephraim Hoyx, 



dated, 

 Deerjleld, Mass. Juli/, 21, 1821. 



One question In Electricity and I have done. Have you 

 any certain proofs that lightning strikes at several places 



isay from twenty to forty rods distance) at the same instant, 

 n a late thunder shower a tree in ray garden three rods 

 from my house, a post in a fence twenty rods distant and 

 a walnut tree in the meadow forty rods distant were struck 

 as we suppose at the same instant. The shock was tre- 

 mendousj and I helieve the tree in my garden saved my 

 house and probably our lives. I am of opinion that the 

 lightning ascended. I am sometimes puzzled to account 

 for Elpctrical Phenomena on known laws and am not cer- 

 tain of the efficacy of rods though I believe them useful in 

 many cases^ 



Art. XVI. — Relation of a case of suspended animation hy 



drowning ; hy Lockwood W. Smith. 



Read at the annual examination in the Medical Institution of Yale College, 



March, 1^2- 



V 



I have selected this as a subject for the present disserta- 

 tion. First, because it came under ray own observation 



