Dr. Oswaldo Cruz [Brazil’s pioneering bacteriologist, who had recently left the public health service]: “Hello! … I already dealt with you in the war…”
The Typhus: “Whaddaya mean, doc! After you left the Hygiene Department, sir, I was no longer the master of leaving Rio de Janeiro!
I’ve been working for the donkey… Now I’m operating at the Botanical Garden; but I still have a lot to do in other neighborhoods! …”
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1916) (I surely require correction with the idioms here.)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 