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empty his bowels, and the next day put him upon the 
ufe of the bark : the applications were a warm fpi- 
rituous bath, and the common digefters. By thefe 
means, there was a reparation begun ; in two days, 
the edges of the burnt parts beginning to feparate, 
when I thought to aflift nature by deep fcarification ; 
but, to my very great furprize, I could no more 
thruft my knife through the burnt parts, than through 
hide leather, or a thong ; by which means, the fe- 
paration was rather flow, and the flench intolerable. 
By the end of July, he was able to walk abroad; 
and, about the middle of Auguft, perfectly healed. 
Remark. 
The lightning came through the upper part of the 
window ; a pair of fheep-fhears lay in the window, 
behind his back, which, I imagine, collected, and 
threw it in fuch various directions about his body. 
Another man fat by him, flightly ftruck about his 
neck and left fhoulder. It is remarkable, while the 
man of the houfe went to his cellar, to draw a jug 
of cyder, on his return, he found his wife and child- 
ren along the floor, and the two men fallen forward, 
with their faces on the table, all infenflble ; and the 
man fo much hurt recovered his fenfes firft. 
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