Cured by Thunder

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 July 1911, Page 4

Cured by Thunder

It is quite an old story that the deaf and dumb may be cured by a sudden shock ,and «, new instance of it is related 1 in a dispatch from Amiens, where a woman is s id! to have recovered the use of her speech after a pa-rtdoalarly loud clap of tlaunder. There have been heavy storms in the region for a few days, accompanied. , with hail, rain, thunder, and' lightning, and] trees in some places have been pulled up by the roots. At others lightning straidk houses and barns, and horses and cattle have been killed. A woman, 48 years of the wife of a workman, had completely tost the .use of her speech since 1905. She wae still able to hear, I but the only way she had of comJnunacating with amytone was by writing. She was * subjected to various treatments, among" others that of electricity; but they seemed to have had no effect. Daiirino , a Tecent thunderstorm she was seized with, a terrible nervous attack and suddenly she recovered the use of her speech, and is now able to converse as easily as before. Several doctors have been to question her, andi her cure is talked of as almost miraculous.