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IN NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 11, I read a letter in which the employment of a wash made from a decoction of quassia wood was recommended as a protection from the attacks of mosquitos and other insect pests. After reading the above-named letter I sent some of the quassia to my son, who is a surveyor camping out on the prairie in Dakotah Territory, U.S.A., in a part much infested in hot weather by mosquitos. In a recent letter my son states that he has repeatedly tried the wash with quassia, but without any beneficial results, the mosquitos having attacked him even before the solution had dried on his skin.
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DANCER, J. Quassia and Mosquitos. Nature 22, 338 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022338b0
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