(Caras y Caretas, Buenos Aires, 1918)
Sarasqueta feels an atrocious fear of acquiring some disease, and thinking that a protected man is worth two, he has adopted all the fashionable serums and injections that science has discovered, to immunize himself from any more or less contagious infection.
He starts by going to Public Assistance to get vaccinated and immunized from smallpox, both black and colored.
He takes another injection to defend himself from Asian cholera morbus, another against bubonic plague, and another against yellow fever.
Another against hydrophobia or anti-rabies, because he is always raging without knowing why.
Still others against diphtheria, flamenco, dengue, influenza, flu, and pulmonary tuberculosis.
Finally, another against the chilblains and their itching, which with these colds is what bothers him most.
With his entire body already tattooed with needles, and the different injections in contact with each other, he feels an anarchic revolutionary movement inside, and a Bolshevik chaos that is not the Russian one.
Finally, calm and feeling perfectly immunized and armored against all kinds of diseases, he defies death face to face.
But when he goes to turn on the light, he touches a broken switch and receives an electric shock that almost leaves him charred.
He had forgotten to apply a concentrated gum acacia injection that would insulate him from electricity!
Sic Transit Pestilentia 