The vermin-killer being a compleat and necessary family-book, shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, birds of all sorts, earwigs, caterpillars, flies, fish, foxes, frogs, gnats, mice, otters, pismires, pole-cats, rabbets, rats, snakes, scorpions, snails, spiders, toads, wasps, weasles, wants or moles, worms in houses and gardens, bugs, lice, fleas, &c. Also several excellent receipts for the cure of most disorders and some useful directions for gardening and husbandry. And likewise for travellers in regard to the management of a horse on a journey, &c., with many curious secrets in art and nature.

Date:
[1770?]
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Credit: The vermin-killer being a compleat and necessary family-book, shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, birds of all sorts, earwigs, caterpillars, flies, fish, foxes, frogs, gnats, mice, otters, pismires, pole-cats, rabbets, rats, snakes, scorpions, snails, spiders, toads, wasps, weasles, wants or moles, worms in houses and gardens, bugs, lice, fleas, &c. Also several excellent receipts for the cure of most disorders and some useful directions for gardening and husbandry. And likewise for travellers in regard to the management of a horse on a journey, &c., with many curious secrets in art and nature. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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