Seven vignettes showing uses of Poudre Persane insecticide. Colour line block, ca. 1880.

Eliminating cockroaches from a kitchen; a soldier suffering from lice or fleas; a man and woman afflicted by bedbugs; a housemaid examining a moth-eaten tiger-rug; a man whose mother-in-law is examining his matrimonial bed for insects; a French soldier recommending the remedy to a junior colleague; a husband and wife in bed free of bedbugs