The extraordinary case of Joseph Lockier : who was struck by lightning, and existed three weeks in a wood near Bath, on water only! / [Joseph Lockier and Thomas Creaser].
- Lockier, Joseph.
- Date:
- [1806]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The extraordinary case of Joseph Lockier : who was struck by lightning, and existed three weeks in a wood near Bath, on water only! / [Joseph Lockier and Thomas Creaser]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![that very soon after the restoration of his senses, ano„ ther thunder storm occurred, that it happened in the night, and frightened him excessively.* He had in his pocket a pocket-book and a shaving dish ;f he placed out the latter to receive the rain which fell abun- dantly about this period. Till the subsequent time when he was discovered and removed, he subsisted en- tirely on the water so caught, and on the grass within the reach of his arms, which he gathered and chewed. He also made the memorandums in his pocket-book, of which the following is a copy :§ “ I am just able to pencil this. I believe the fatal thunder storm (to me) was on the 18fA]] of August* I should not have known how the time went on only by hearing the guns go off Jor partridge-shoot- ing the first of September, and it is now the 4th I am pencilling this— from the above time till now I have not had any thing to put in my month. i. As I was going across this wood to Farleigh, I was struck down by a violent clap of thunder, where I lay senseless for God knows how long. When I came to myself my hands and feet were swelled very much, so that I could not stand; nor have I eat any thing for three weeks past—God only knows my sufferings. “ The said Joseph Lockier also deposes, that his voice was restored so as to enable him to call for assist- ance, and that some time in the commencement of the month of September, he heard persons in the wood with dogs and called to them for assistance, that they approached within a short distance of him and heard * This second thunder storm is known to have occurred on the night of the 29th of August, so that he must have been insensible for nearlj ten days. t It was one part of his occupation to shave persons in the village where he lived. $ The pocket-book inclosed two slate leaves $ it is soiled and ruwplad by the rain. It was on the 19th,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28751103_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
