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are not only become troublesome at London, are got into some Countries; and whereas, 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 prople, 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 regress, from these catises bugs proceed; and also cousumptions, 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 sun suck up the moisture contracted in the night time, this is a great preservative against all vermin, as also of your health.

1st. Take gunpowder beat shall, 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 after. Or take sprigs of fern, and lay upon the, kills them.