16!^ STATICAL LAMP. 



like debility, the very contrary effeft was produced; namely, 

 found and undifturbed fleep in the night, followed by ftrengtli 

 and increafed chearFulnefs on the following morning. 

 Expcaation that I very Cncerely hope the medical application of this ex- 

 5de ma^prov e' *'"^"'"^'"3ry agent, direcled as it is by the very able hand of 

 eminently ufe- Dr. Beddoes, may prove as important and ufeful in medicine 

 lul, &c. ^5 jf |g interefting and curious in philofophy. 



I have not yet heard of its being tried in cafes of fufpended 

 animation ; it appears to be an experiment well worth making. 

 The fubject is periiaps worthy of the attention of the Humane 

 Society. I am with refpe6t. 



Dear Sir, 



Your's fincerely, 



JAMES STODART. 

 Strand, January Ql, 1S06 



XV. 



Defcription of a Slalical Lamp, which maintains a Supply qf 

 Oil to the Burner from a Reftrvoir, placed Jo Ion; as to occa~ 

 Jion no Interception of Light. % A. F. 



To Mr, NICHOLSON. 

 SIR. 



Dcfcrption of a A SEND you a flvctch of an overflowing lamp, of which 

 new (udcal the conllni6tion will be eafily deduced from the figure. Its 

 '^""''' advantages are, that the flame is fopplied from below, and 



the light is not intercepted, but falls on all furrounding ob- 

 jeds as dire6tly as that of a candle. The upper part of A 

 (fee Plate IV.) contains the ufual apparatus of a lamp, either 

 according to Argand's conflrudion or any oilier; and (he 

 column or tube which fupplies the oil may be no longer than 

 that fupply and the conditions of the ftrudure may demand. 

 The vafe below contains the oil, which is poured in, when 

 needful, at the top of the column, by a funnel or otherwife. 

 The circle round B, C, reprefents a globulaf (or cylindrical) 

 veflel, having no communication with the vafe except through 



a neck; 



