Argentina and Brazil: “Patience, Lady Italy, don’t keep harassing us with your press, because we defend the perimeter by inducing a strong purge on the suspicious ships of Italian origin. We cannot receive cholera as kindly as we received Mascagni and Rigoletto!…” (Argentine and Brazil are preparing to apply clystères to cholera’s rear. Such purging was a recurrent theme during earlier epidemics.)
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1911)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 