Cardiotype
No case is one-half so difficult of belief as that alleged marvellous
discovery by Dr. Conyers, who, it is said, on anatomising a gentleman who
died for love, found an impression of the lady's face upon his heart.
Fulgurotype
On August 26th, 1823, a little girl was standing at a window, before which
was a young maple tree. After a brilliant flash of lightning a complete
image of the tree was found imprinted on her body.
M. Raspail records that in 1855 a boy climbed a tree to rob a bird's-nest.
The tree was struck and the boy thrown to the ground, and on his breast the
image of the tree, with the bird and nest on one of its branches, appeared
very plainly.
Retinotype
It has been concluded by doctors in America, that the last image formed on
the retina of the eye of a dying person remains impressed upon it like the
image on a photograph, and that if the last object seen by a murdered
person was his murderer, the portrait drawn upon the eye would remain a
fearful witness in death to detect him and lead to his conviction. Dr.
Sandford, of New York, reports that he examined the eye of a murdered man
at Auburn by means of the microscope, and found impressed on the retina the
rude, worn away figure of a man, supposed to be the assassin!
Be warned! There are more where these came from.
Mike