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The Nightly Human Sacrifice
From the Reverend James Woodford describing his 1786 day in London, quote, I was bit so terribly with bugs again this night that I got up at four o'clock this morning and took a long walk by myself about the city until breakfast time. If they could be seen, quote, crawling from house to house, escaping through exterior windows and doors and traveling along walls, pipes and gutters end quote. Apparently the bed bugs were so bad in some of these lodging houses that people were told you should get half drunk to get a decent night's sleep because the bed bugs will keep you up. Yeah. These are not, these are, these are massive, not subtle, massive numbers