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On a prolonged first stage of Tabes dorsalis : amaurosis, lightning pains, recurrent herps; no ataxia; absence of patella tenson reflex / by Thomas Buzzard.
Buzzard, Thomas.Date: [1878?]
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An analysis of the electrical fire; setting forth, from the lecturer's own experiments, that It neither attracts, nor repels; nor is attracted, or repell'd, by Points; or, any other Way, is not material nor inherent in Bodies, nor in the Clouds, &c. Together, with an account of an uncommon effect of lightning, and dissertation on thunder clouds; shewing, That Thunder is not caused by such Clouds being impregnated with Minerals; but, by frozen or cold Ones, coming into a warm Atmosphere. Dedicated to Dr. Francklin. By Thomas Kirby.
Kirby, Thomas, of Chatham.Date: [1777]
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An account of a very extraordinary effect of lightning on a bullock, at Swanborow, in the Parish of Iford near Lewes, in the County of Sussex. In sundry letters from Mr. James Lambert, Landscape-Painter at Lewes; and one from William Green, Esq. at Lewes; to William Henly, F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, May 1, 1776.
Lambert, James, 1725-1788.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLXXVI. [1776]
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Directions for insuring personal safety during storms of thunder and lightning, and for the right application of conductors to houses and other buildings / [John Leigh].
Leigh, John, Esq., Jnr.Date: [1835?]
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Death by electric currents and by lightning : the Goulstonian lectures for 1913 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London / by A.J. Jex-Blake.
Jex-Blake, Arthur John, 1873-1957.Date: 1913
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A poem, in blank verse, on a violent storm, attended with thunder and lightning. To which is added, A poem on death; to Palmera. By Edward Stephens.
Stephens, Edward, active 1747-1765.Date: 1751
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An alarm, to Scotland or some observations upon the lightning that was upon the eighteenth of May 1710; the sun being the culer of blood the day before.
Date: 1710]
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Draw the lightning down : Benjamin Franklin and electrical technology in the Age of Enlightenment / Michael Brian Schiffer, with the assistance of Kacy L. Hollenback and Carrie L. Bell.
Schiffer, Michael B. (Michael Brian), 1947-Date: [2003], ©2003
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The sovereignty of God, in determining man's days, or the time and manner of his death: illustrated and improved, in a sermon, preached at Suffield, May 22d, 1766, at the funeral of three young men, who were killed by lightning, May 20th, 1766. By Ebenezer Gay, A.M. Pastor of a church in Suffield. [Three lines from Job]
Gay, Ebenezer, 1718-1796.Date: 1767
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A letter from a gentleman in the north, to his friend in Burntisland, concerning the dreadful thunder and lightning, that happened in the shire of Bamff, the 17th instant. ...
Fitchet, Alexander.Date: 1728]
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A true and faithful relation of the damage that was done by the thunder and lightning to the parish church and steeple of Crocomb, near Stogomer in the county of Somerset.
Norris, WilliamDate: [1724?]
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A true and particular account of a storm of thunder & lightning, which fell at Richmond in Surrey, on Whit Sunday last in the afternoon, being May 20th, 1711. With an exact description, on a copper-plate, of the hurt done by it, both to the persons of the kill'd and wounded and the building on which it fell. Whereunto are added Some short Hints concerning the Nature, Causes, and Effects of Thunder and Lightning; and some Practical Reflections upon the Whole.
Date: [1711]
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A selection of papers on the subject of the fixed lightning conductors to the masts of His Majesty's Navy ... Together with much interesting matter on the subject of electricity / [William Pringle Green].
Green, William Pringle, 1785-1846.Date: 1824
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Monody to the memory of Mrs. Mansell, unfortunately killed in a chaise overturned by the horses starting at a flash of lightning, Nov. 3, 1770, in the 75th year of her age.
Wheeldon, John, 1734 or 1735-1800.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]
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Mental prodigies : an enquiry into the faculties of arithmetical, chess, and musical prodigies, famous memorizers, precocious children and the like wih numerous examples of "lightning" calculations and mental magic / by Fred Barlow.
Barlow, Fred, 1888-Date: [1951]
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A poem on the death of Mr. Abraham Rice, aged 80, and Mr. John Cloyes, aged 41, who were struck with lightning, June 3, 1777. in Framingham. [Four lines from Psalms] By Lydia Learned, of Framingham.
Learned, Lydia, 1730-1792.Date: [1777?]
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An historical miscellany of the curiosities and rarities in nature and art. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanos, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, thunder, lightning, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature.
Date: [1794-1800]
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De la foudre : de ses formes, et de ses effets sur l'homme, les animaux, les végétaux et les corps bruts, des moyens de s'en préserver et des paratonnerres / par F. Sestier ; rédigé sur les documents laissés par M. Sestier et complété par le docteur C. Méhu.
Sestier, Félix, 1803-1857.Date: 1866
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The triumph of death, and the uncertainty of life, considered. A universal funeral sermon: being the substance of two very alarming discourses preached on ... the late thunder and lightning, which happened on Sunday, March 22. ... By an eminent Gospel minister of this city.
Eminent Gospel minister of this city (London).Date: 1772
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De la foudre, de ses formes, et de ses effets : sur l'homme, les animaux, les vegetaux et les corps bruts, des moyens de s'en preserver et des paratonnerres / Par le docteur F. Sestier ... Redige sur les documents laisses par M. Sestier ; et complete par le docteur C. Mehu.
Méhu, Camille, 1835-Date: 1866
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De la foudre, de ses formes, et de ses effets sur l’homme, les animaux, les végétaux et les corps bruts, des moyens de s’en préserver et des paratonnerres / par F. Sestier ; rédigé sur les documents laissés par M. Sestier et complété par C. Méhu.
Sestier, Feĺix, 1803-1857.Date: 1866
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On a remarkable phenomenon observed at Rangoon / by C. Collingwood.
Collingwood, Cuthbert, 1826-1908.Date: 1868
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Meteors, or, A plain description of all kind of meteors : as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy, briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, sprigs, stones, and metalls / by W.F.
Fulke, William, 1538-1589Date: 1655
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An account of several new and interesting phenomena, discovered in examining the bodies of a man and four horses, killed by lightning, near Dover, in Kent. With remarks on the insufficiency of the popular theory of electricity to explain them. By the Reverend John Lyon, minister of Sr. Mary's, Dover.
Lyon, John, 1734-1817.Date: 1796
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Accidents and emergencies : a guide : containing directions for treatment in bleeding, cuts, stabs, bruises, sprains, ruptures, broken bones, dislocations, railway and steamboat accidents, burns and scalds, explosions, bites of mad dogs, inflammations, cholera, diarrhea, injured eyes, choking, poisons, fits, sun stroke, lightning, drowning, etc., etc. / by Alfred Smee ; with alterations, corrections, and appendix by R.T. Trall.
Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877.Date: [1850], [©1850]

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On a prolonged first stage of Tabes dorsalis : amaurosis, lightning pains, recurrent herps; no ataxia; absence of patella tenson reflex / by Thomas Buzzard.

Directions for insuring personal safety during storms of thunder and lightning, and for the right application of conductors to houses and other buildings / [John Leigh].

Death by electric currents and by lightning : the Goulstonian lectures for 1913 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London / by A.J. Jex-Blake.

A poem, in blank verse, on a violent storm, attended with thunder and lightning. To which is added, A poem on death; to Palmera. By Edward Stephens.

An alarm, to Scotland or some observations upon the lightning that was upon the eighteenth of May 1710; the sun being the culer of blood the day before.

Draw the lightning down : Benjamin Franklin and electrical technology in the Age of Enlightenment / Michael Brian Schiffer, with the assistance of Kacy L. Hollenback and Carrie L. Bell.

A letter from a gentleman in the north, to his friend in Burntisland, concerning the dreadful thunder and lightning, that happened in the shire of Bamff, the 17th instant. ...

A true and faithful relation of the damage that was done by the thunder and lightning to the parish church and steeple of Crocomb, near Stogomer in the county of Somerset.

A selection of papers on the subject of the fixed lightning conductors to the masts of His Majesty's Navy ... Together with much interesting matter on the subject of electricity / [William Pringle Green].

Monody to the memory of Mrs. Mansell, unfortunately killed in a chaise overturned by the horses starting at a flash of lightning, Nov. 3, 1770, in the 75th year of her age.

Mental prodigies : an enquiry into the faculties of arithmetical, chess, and musical prodigies, famous memorizers, precocious children and the like wih numerous examples of "lightning" calculations and mental magic / by Fred Barlow.

A poem on the death of Mr. Abraham Rice, aged 80, and Mr. John Cloyes, aged 41, who were struck with lightning, June 3, 1777. in Framingham. [Four lines from Psalms] By Lydia Learned, of Framingham.

An historical miscellany of the curiosities and rarities in nature and art. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanos, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, thunder, lightning, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature.

De la foudre : de ses formes, et de ses effets sur l'homme, les animaux, les végétaux et les corps bruts, des moyens de s'en préserver et des paratonnerres / par F. Sestier ; rédigé sur les documents laissés par M. Sestier et complété par le docteur C. Méhu.

The triumph of death, and the uncertainty of life, considered. A universal funeral sermon: being the substance of two very alarming discourses preached on ... the late thunder and lightning, which happened on Sunday, March 22. ... By an eminent Gospel minister of this city.

De la foudre, de ses formes, et de ses effets : sur l'homme, les animaux, les vegetaux et les corps bruts, des moyens de s'en preserver et des paratonnerres / Par le docteur F. Sestier ... Redige sur les documents laisses par M. Sestier ; et complete par le docteur C. Mehu.

De la foudre, de ses formes, et de ses effets sur l’homme, les animaux, les végétaux et les corps bruts, des moyens de s’en préserver et des paratonnerres / par F. Sestier ; rédigé sur les documents laissés par M. Sestier et complété par C. Méhu.

On a remarkable phenomenon observed at Rangoon / by C. Collingwood.

Meteors, or, A plain description of all kind of meteors : as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy, briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, sprigs, stones, and metalls / by W.F.