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A Treatise of Buggs

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A practical manual on household infestation by small blood‑feeding insects, examining their nature, feeding and breeding habits, and the prolific numbers each pair can produce. It traces how they enter and spread through dwellings, identifies common misconceptions and reasons past destruction efforts failed, and argues that the cooler months are the most effective season for eradication, supported by experiments. The author presents a proprietary liquid remedy with trial results showing insects emerging and dying without staining furniture, and concludes with clear, step‑by‑step directions for prevention and complete destruction for both uninfested and infested homes.

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Title: A Treatise of Buggs

Author: John Southall

Illustrator: Gerard Vandergucht

Release date: August 1, 2015 [eBook #49564]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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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, by Proof of the Numbers each Pair produce in a Season.

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 by Reason, and proved by Facts.

Concluding with

DIRECTIONS for such as have them not already, how to avoid them; and for those that have them, how to destroy them.

By JOHN SOUTHALL,

Maker of the Nonpareil Liquor for destroying Buggs and Nits, living at the Green Posts in the Green Walk near Faulcon-stairs, Southwark.

The Second Edition.

LONDON: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms
in Warwick-Lane. M.dcc.xxx.
(Price One Shilling.)