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Household pests

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  • The manager of a hotel discusses the extermination of bedbugs with a lady. Wood engraving by 'Henriot' (H. Maigrot).
  • House mice devouring a large cheese placed on the floor next to their hole. Etching by Hicks, 1888.
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    House mice devouring a large cheese placed on the floor next to their hole. Etching by Hicks, 1888.

    Hicks, active 1888. | Date: 1 Aug 1889 | Reference: 39913i
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    Household pests and household remedies / by W. R. Boelter.

    Boelter, W. R. | Date: [1909]
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    Osservazioni naturali intorno alle cavallette nocive della campagna romana / [by Luigi Metaxa and Sebastiano Rolli].

    Metaxa, Luigi, 1778-1842. | Date: 1825
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    Flies and vermin / report by the medical officer presenting reports by Dr. Hamer, medical officer (general purposes), on nuisance from flies and on the seasonal prevalence of vermin in common lodging houses.

    Murphy, Shirley, F. | Date: [1910]
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    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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