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 ... and one from William Green ... to William Henly. Read at the Royal Society, May 1, 1776.

  • Lambert, James, 1725-1788.
Date:
1776
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Credit: 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 ... and one from William Green ... to William Henly. Read at the Royal Society, May 1, 1776. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    touched. The whole belly is unhurt, but the end of the fheath of the penis has the hair taken off; it is alfo taken off from the deulap; the horns and the curled hair on the forehead are uninjured, but it is taken off the fides of the face, from the flat part of the jaw-bones, and it is taken off from the front of the face in ftripes. There are a few white marks on the fide and neck, which are furrounded with red, and the hair is taken off from them, leaving half an inch of white adjoining to the red. I looked attentively at the feet and legs, and could not difcover any hair taken from them (they were very dirty) except from the joint a little above one of the hoofs, where it was partly off. I have fent a iketch of one of the fides of the ox, which will ferve to illuftrate what I have faid, and is better than any defcription. I have coloured, with faint red, thofe parts which were ftripped of the hair. The farmer anointed the ox with oil for a fortnight; the animal purged very much at firft, and is greatly reduced in flefh. I faw it about a fortnight ago, and it was then recovering. I am, See. LETTER III. FROM MR. LAMBERT. Nov. 15, 1774. I A M forry for the delay in fending you this drawing; ■*- but, as you know the caufe, I need not fay any thing further than that I have the happinefs to acquaint you, that