Professor: “… It is not rare for diseases to exist in the human body which go entirely unmarked for years at a time.”
(after the lecture)
“Why are you so quiet today, dear Flora?”
“Oh, dear Mama, I will die soon, I just know it, I have consumption!”
“But why would you get such a strange idea, you’ve never complained about any pains!”
Flora (crying): “That’s just it, I don’t feel anything at all!”
(Fliegende Blätter, Munich, 1873)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 