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THE VERMIN 



Bugs to prevent breeding. 



BUGS are not only become troublesome at Lon- 

 don, but are got into some countries; and where- 

 as people think they are bred of hogs, hair, wood, 

 wool, cloth, and fur, these things breed only lice, 

 moths, and worms; but bugs proceed from old 

 feather beds; whereon has long laid sick and 

 sweaty people, which produces putrified smells 

 and vapours; so does close press beds that have 

 not the advantage of the pure air; as also close 

 rooms, where the air wants free egress and re- 

 gress, from these causes bugs proceed: and also 

 consumptions, weakness of the back, and such like 

 diseases that people little think of. And if you 

 observe, you shall never find these creatures in 

 shops, or where no beds are, or have been put. 

 One way therefore to prevent them, is to wash 

 your rooms, and keep them very clean, and keep 

 your windows open in the day time, that the air 

 may come in, and in a morning lay open your 

 bed clothes that the air may come in, and the sun 

 suck up the moisture contracted in the night time; 

 this is a great preservative against all vermin, as 

 also of your health. 



How to destroy House Bugs. 



Take gunpowder beat small, and lay some about 

 the crevices of your bedstead, and fire it with a 

 match about your bedsteads, and keep the smoke 

 in; this do for an hour or more, and let the room 

 be kept close for some hours after. Or take 

 sprigs of fern, and lay upon the boards, kills them. 



Bugs. Take ^JbangTuj o^' wormwood and white 



