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]

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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$the Baron of his Counfry, the Prince of Cariati, usefully employed in the assistance of his unfor- tunate subjects. He shewed me two girls—one of about sixteen years of age, who had remained eleven days without food under the ruins of a house at Oppido; she had a child of five or six months old in her arms, which died the fourth day. The girl gave me a clear account of her \ sufferings; having light through a small opening, she had kept an exact account of the number of days she had been buried : she did not seem to be in bad health, drank freely, but has got a dif- ficulty in swallowing any thing solid. The other girl was about eleven years of age, she remained under the ruins six days only, but in so very confined and distressful a posture, that one of her hands pressing against her cheek, had nearly worn a hole in it.”—Speaking of the earthquakes at Messina, Sir Wm. H. observes, “ A curious circumstance happened here also to prove that animals can remain long alive without food. Two mules, belonging to the Duke of Belviso, remained under a heap of ruins, one of them tw7enty-two, and the other twrenty-three days. They would not eat for some days, but drank plentifully, and are now quite recovered. There are numberless instances of dogs remaining many days in the same situation, and a hen, belonging to the British Vice-Consul at Messina, that had been closely shut up under the ruins of his house, t$