Doctor: “Well, Herr Councillor, you have returned from your business trip quite corpulent, you’ve bounced back from cholera quite well and are making improvements to your diet!”
Councillor: “That’s just it. Herr Doctor told me: ‘Only diet! Only diet!’ and right away I followed it strictly in the plural!”
(Fliegende Blätter, Munich, 1855)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 