Re Bedbugs and Their Destruction

Sik,?I am glad to note that Sub-Asst.-Surgeon Satkari Ganguli after trying turpentine on bedbugs writes his experiences in the October 1912 issue of this your esteemed journal, and passes his glowing opinion on its effectiveness in destroying them. This is as you know what I claimed in my article of the 28th August 1911 in the October 1911 issue of the journal, which was the first article I wrote on the subject. Please allow me to explain fully that I use the medicinal turpentine (spirit), and to prevent evaporation I make it into an emulsion of equal parts of so ip suds. Without soap suds it has not the same effect, owing to the bedbugs having very smooth, and hard backs the turpentine alone runs otf, and they sometimes can slip away and escape destruction. The suds fixes the turpentine to them in a way in which they can never escape with their life.