A treatise of buggs: shewing when and how they were first brought into England, How they are brought into and infect houses. Their nature, several foods, times and manner of spawning and propagating in this climate. Their great increase accounted for ... Reasons given why all attempts hitherto made for their destruction have proved ineffectual. Vulgar errors concerning them refuted. That from September to March is the best season for their total destruction, demonstrated ... Concluding with directions ... how to destroy them / By John Southall.

  • Southall, John.
Date:
1730
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Credit: A treatise of buggs: shewing when and how they were first brought into England, How they are brought into and infect houses. Their nature, several foods, times and manner of spawning and propagating in this climate. Their great increase accounted for ... Reasons given why all attempts hitherto made for their destruction have proved ineffectual. Vulgar errors concerning them refuted. That from September to March is the best season for their total destruction, demonstrated ... Concluding with directions ... how to destroy them / By John Southall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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