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.
I remain, Sir, yours &c.,
A. ALLISON,
M.D., Senior Surgeon to the Lloyd Cottage Hospital, Bridlington.
In 1880, the medical journal the Lancet published a letter
from a doctor that hailed getting struck by lightning as a miracle cure.
It cited the story of a farmer hit by a bolt that rendered him
unconscious.
When he awoke, his cancer was in remission.
The writer predicted “frictional electricity” would be a
“powerful therapeutic agent in the dispersion of cancerous formations.”
Το 1880, το ιατρικό περιοδικό Lancet δημοσίευσε μια
επιστολή από έναν γιατρό, ο οποίος θεωρούσε ότι το χτύπημα από κεραυνό ήταν
θαυματουργή θεραπεία.
Ο γιατρός επικαλέστηκε την ιστορία ενός αγρότη, ο οποίος
αφού χτυπήθηκε από κεραυνό έμεινε αναίσθητος.
Όταν ξύπνησε, ο καρκίνος από τον οποίο έπασχε ο αγρότης,
ήταν σε ύφεση.
Με αυτό ως επιχείρημα, ο γιατρός προέβλεψε ότι η «τριβή της
ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας» θα μπορούσε να αποτελέσει έναν «ισχυρό θεραπευτικό
παράγοντα στη διασπορά των καρκινικών σχηματισμών»...
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
clickhereor here
> ...... 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 hereor 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
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.
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. .....................
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.
from
the book: "Electrical Healing and the Violet Ray"
by Gary
J. Lockhart
Literature
contains a number of cases in which lightning provided a healing impetus.
In 1776 Mrs. "Wynne went to Dublin to consult with several
surgeons. She had a large tumor in the left breast. They didn't want to operate,
so she returned home. She was looking out of the window of her home when
lightning struck it and set fire to the roof. The stroke passed through her left
shoulder and down her back. She tumbled to the floor and was found later that
evening. Doctor Georgius Hicks visited her two days later and found that her
breast tumor was smaller and softer. In a few weeks it was completely gone.
He decided to try
electric shock to treat breast cancer. He was able to reduce the cancerous
tumors and pain in two women with shocks.
In the
summer of 1806 Samuel Leffers suffered from a stroke. The left side of his face was
numb and he had great difficulty in speaking. He was unable to close one eye
and could hardly walk. Several months later while he was in his house lightning
struck and he lay senseless for about twenty minutes. When he recovered he began
to tee] much better. The next day he sat dawn to write a letter to a friend, and
he found that he didn't need glasses. Although he lost part of his hearing, he
looked thirty years younger and his face acquired a remarkable smoothness and
beauty.
Susana
Watts was traveling home when a severe storm struck. The carriage broke down and
she had 10 walk the rest of die way. The cold weather was too much and her
health failed. She was unable to use her arms and was confined to bed. Three
years later a bolt of lightning struck the house and left a large circle on the
ceiling with a black ring. She was unconscious and the servants loosened her
clothes and began to massage her. As she awoke she was angry with them, for
touching her. Then she got up and began to walk. She stumbled and reached out
for the handrail. The lightning restored the use of her arm and cured her
arthritis.
In 1822
Martin Rockwell was standing looking out of a window when lightning struck
die building about ten feet away. He was briefly paralyzed and
it took an hour for normal movement to return to his left leg and right arm.
There was a burning sensation in his chest that continued for days. Rockwell
suffered from asthma since he was a boy and was often unable to sleep. Since the
lightning strike he was entirely free of asthma. He would tee! it slightly when
he had. a cold or was fatigued.
In 1828 a
ship was crossing the Atlantic with a passenger who had been paralyzed for
three years. Lighting
struck his quarters, and suddenly he jumped out of bed. He remained perfectly
normal ever since.
Another
strange stroke ol lighrning aroused medical curiosity in 1846. Lightning struck a group of
black women. One woman had been childless tor years and in a few months, she
was expecting. Another woman was seventy years old and she had gone through
meno-pause twenty years before. She began to menstruate and continued for the
next three years.
Around 1850
an English farmer developed cancer of the lower lip and chin. He agreed to have surgery, but
before the dace he was out plowing his fields. He was struck by lightning, both
of his horses were killed, and his plow was shattered. A few weeks later die
cancer was distinctly less and in months it disappeared. He enjoyed good health
for the next ten years. The cancer reappeared and the man died,
Thomas
Young was a farmer near Dukedom, Tennessee.Cancer began on his face and
the surgeon removed part of his lower jaw. The cancer continued to spread and by
June of 1932 he was nearly dead. He chose to spend his last days lying in bed or
on a hammock under the trees. One day a sudden storm came and struck one of die
trees his hammock was tired to. The bolt stunned him and ripped the soles from
his shoes. In a few days he began to feel better. The cancerous sores started to
heal, and soon he was back to normal.
In 1971
Edwin Robinson jackknited his truck in order to avoid hitting a car. As a. result of the accident
he became blind and quite deaf, [n June of 1980 he walked out into the backyard
as a storm was brewing to call his pet chicken indoors. The next moment he felt
as "somebody cracked a whip over his head." He lay unconscious for about twenty
minutes before he was able to go inside. After a good nap he went into the
kitchen for a sandwich. Suddenly he realized he could see a little. His wife
asked: "What time is it?" He was able to tell her diat it was 5 P.M. Two days
later he was able to walk about without his cane. His hearing returned and he
didn't need the hearing aid. He kept remarking about the strange feeling on the
top of his head. A new crop of hair was growing over the bald area.
Two
brothers in London were struck by lightning. The next day the deaf brother
recovered his hearing.
A coal
miner in Northern England lost his sight after an explosion of gunpowder.
After he was struck by lightning the sight of his left eye returned.
A woman
with multiple sclerosis was struck by lightning. She had been slowly
degenerating, but within months she recovered most of her normal function.
0 57χρονος αμερικανός John Corson από το Madison
χτυπήθηκε από κεραυνό έξω από το σπίτι του και όχι μόνο επέζησε, αλλά
δηλώνει ότι αισθάνεται εκατό χρόνια νεότερος μετά το συμβάν. Όπως δήλωσε
ο...ίδιος; «Ήταν σαν ένα πολύ λαμπερό ασπρο-γάλαζο φως, άκουσα τον...
κρότο, αλλά είχα παραλύσει. Ένιωθα όλο μου το σώμα να δονείται. Ήταν μια
πολύ δυσάρεστη αίσθηση και με πονούσε έντονα το στήθος μου. Τώρα όμως
αισθάνομαι όλο μου το σώμα ανάλαφρο. Είναι ό,τι καλύτερο έχω νιώσει
μέχρι τώρα».
Να σημειωθεί ότι ο Corson είχε υποβληθεί παλαιότερα σε τρεις επεμβάσεις
καρδιάς, αλλά ο κεραυνός σε τίποτα δεν επηρέασε αρνητικά την υγεία του.
Το αντίθετο μάλλον απ' ό,τι φαίνεται.
A remarkable case of paralysis
being cured by lightning is reported from Bad Beyhausen.
A Berlin doctor ordered a patient of his who had been paralysed in both feet for
many years to take the baths, not for a cure as that appeared hopeless, but
thiriking the invalid might possibly derive some slight benefit from the waters.
The patient was ordered to be as much qs possible in the open air, and was in
the habit or sitting outside the house in a bath-chair.
Recently, a vioIent thunderstrom canne on, and everydody in the house forgot the
sick man was outside.
Suddenly a vivid flash of
lightning and a terrific crash of thunder reminded them of the fact, and they
were just about to go in search of him when the invalid appeared in their midst,
walking without any difficulty.
From that moment, he has appeared
to be completely cured.
This case, the Hoyaer Wochenblatt says, has excited great interest among the
medical men; some of whom believe the cure to be effected merely by fear and the
intense desire to walk, others think that the electric current may have assisted
the paralysed limbs to move.
Searching again after a few
days(below).... webpage was missing !
However, webpage was truly existing,
because relevant index of google still existed,
- as you can see -
even though webpage was missing !
and twitter, too !
(see below)
So,
now after exposing this
"Suppression of Information concerning a Lightning Cure"
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A-pistefto 
