I have seen in diverse chambers, that when one had gone to bed they were full of mosquitoes,which at the smoke of the breath came to sit on the faces of those that slept, and stung them so hard, that they were forced to get up and light a fire of hay, in order to make a smoke so that they were forced to fly away or die, and this may be done by day if they be suspected, and likewise he that has a mosquito net may protect himself with it.
The Goodman of Paris (Le Ménagier de Paris): a treatise on moral and domestic economy by a citizen of Paris, c.1393

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