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Fleas. Rub a small piece of board over with 

 hogs grease, and all the fleas will gather to it in 

 the middle of the room. 



To kill Fleas and Wall Lice. 



Take the decoction of thistle and arsmart or 

 coloquintida, bramble, or colewort leaves, and 

 sprinkle about the house, drives them away, or 

 anoint a stick with the grease of a hedge-hog, and 

 lay it in the room, and the fleas will gather and 

 stick to it. 



RJ1 TS AND MICE. 



Take ratsbane, powder it, and mix it with 

 fresh butter, or make it into a paste with barley 

 or wheat meal and honey, and lay on trenchards 

 or boards where they come: they will eat it, and it 

 makes them drink till they burst. It is a strong 

 poison, therefore be very careful in using it, and 

 wash your hands after it. Or unslacked lime and 

 oatmeal mixed, and laid on boards where they 

 come, kills them. 



Rats or Mice. 



Take oatmeal and powder'd glass only, or mix 

 them with fresh butter, and lay where they come. 

 Or filings of iron mixed with oatmeal, or with 

 dough or oatmeal flpur, and lay where they do 

 come. 



Rats and Mice. 



Black hellebore and the seed of wild cucumber 

 mixed with such food as they eat, kills them 

 Or mix powdered hellebqre with wheat or barley- 

 meal only, made into a stiff paste with honey, and 

 laid where they come, they eat it, it is present 

 death; but great care must be taken, lest any thing 

 they eat should be poisoned. 



