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wash the room and bedstead with it twice a week. 



Bugs. Hang a bear's skin in your room, and 

 they will be gone. Or get a trap about a yard and 

 a half long, or more, if your bed is broad, and 

 about half a yard in depth; put it at the head of 

 your bed to the bottom of the pillow, and in the 

 morning they will creep into it; take it into your 

 yard, knock it, and they will drop out, so you may 

 kill them. They are made of wickers, by basket 

 makers. 



Bugs Take wormwood dried, and put it in 

 bags pricked full of holes, and lay between your 

 bed and sacking mats or boards, and some under 

 the bolster, and under your bed on the floor, and 

 on the bed tester; this prevents the breeding of 

 either bugs or fleas. 



To conclude, let your rooms be kept clean, set 

 open the windows when you rise, and lay your 

 bed clothes open four or five hours, and it is the 

 only way to prevent both bugs and fleas. 

 Lice. 



Lice. Take butter unsalted, and boil it up with 

 pepper to a salve; then cut off the hair, and anoint 

 the head, and put on a cap. 



L\ce.~ Take staves-acre powdered, and mix it 

 among the hair, then tie it with a cap, and it kills 

 them. Or oil and staves acre. 



Lice. Take aramanths (apothecaries sell it), 

 boil it in lye, and wash the head: or take oliba- 

 mi'ii and as much swine's grease, boil them to- 

 gether, and anoint children's heads, it kills lice. 

 JVife and Lice in the liead. 



Take of bees wax an ounce, three ounces of 



'olive oil, three drams of staves acre; of these 



make a salve, and anoint ; it kills both nits and hce. 



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