A treatise of buggs
Subtitle: 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 desctruction, 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: 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
Contributors: Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, engraver; Roberts, James, 1668 or 1669-1754, bookseller
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1730
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Bedbugs; Early works to 1800
Notes: Engraved frontispiece signed: G. VanderGucht, sculp.

Advertisements on [3] p. at end; last p. blank.

Head- and tailpieces; initials.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.