At the sickbed

Hospital ward: Polish treasury. Patient: The Polish mark.
Doctor Biliński [the Polish finance minister with his austerity elixir]: “Isn’t it strange that my famous decoction is not helping the patient?”
Polish woman: “No wonder! Until the doctor removes the leeches [bureaucratism, dilettantism, bribery] that constantly drink the patient’s blood, no medicine will put him on his feet.”
(Mucha, Warsaw, 1919)