FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 331:953-954 October 6, 1994 Number 14 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited Related Article by Zehender, M. PubMed Citation

To the Editor: The Image in Clinical Medicine entitled "Struck by Lightning" (May 26 issue)¹ was interesting and beautifully presented. However, unless there is a recognized method of distinguishing the entrance and exit wounds caused by lightning, we believe the figure legend misleads the reader. The legend describes the lightning as entering the victim's body by the neck and exiting by her leg. Typically, lightning travels upward, not downward. During thunderstorms an excess negative charge of electrons accumulates in clouds. The earth below is positively charged. When the electromagnetic attraction between the cloud and the earth becomes great enough, electrons . . . [Full Text of this Article]

References

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.