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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    firing to know his Age. His Anfwer was, he knew not himfelf; but this he knew, that he was one of the firft Slaves brought into that Ifland, after the jEnglijh had taken it in Oliver Cromwell's time, and was then a great Boy. By this account I judged, and might reafonably fuppofe him up¬ wards of ninety Years of Age. Whilft we were in difcourfe, he perceiving me often rub and fcratch, where my Face and Eyes were much fwelled with Bugg-Bites, asked if Chintfes, (fb Buggs are by Negroes and fome others there called) had bit me ? On my anfwering, yes; he faid, he wonder’d white Men fhould let them bite; they fhould do fomething to kill them, as he did. This unexpected Expreflion exci¬ ted in me a Curiofity to have far¬ ther Difcourfe with him; and on my telling him, that for my part I fhould i be