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

  • Leigh, John, Esq., Jnr.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Directions for insuring personal safety during storms of thunder and lightning, and for the right application of conductors to houses and other buildings. / By John Leigh, Jun., Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    moment, as it happened, standing very near the wall. Anda little volume of similar examples might be readily collected. It may be stated as a general rule, that a per- son whose clothes are wet, incurs less danger during a storm than in the case of their being perfectly dry ; and the lives of parties struck by lightning have been frequently preserved, owing to this circumstance: for water being a good conductor of the electric fluid, the lightning finds a passage to the ground, sometimes without in- juring at all, sometimes after injuring only in a slight degree the parties on whom it descends ; and sometimes the clothes and shoes have been partly consumed without any lasting injury to the wearer. In reference, further, to the danger of parti- cular situations out of doors, it may be observed, that the more exposed the situation, andthe higher the ground, the greater is the danger. It is true, that lightning sometimes falls on low