Caption: The one who is pulling the plague off the walls of Vienna on his own. (Following a visit by four staff members to India to study the plague, the Institute of Pathology in Vienna unwittingly developed a pneumonic strain leading to four fatalities, sparking fears of a renewed outbreak in Europe. The man depicted is Dr. Hermann Franz Müller, who treated the first fatality and then died three days later. Titusz Dugovics was a mythical Hungarian soldier who had helped fend off Ottoman invaders in the fifteenth century.)
(Kakas Martón, Budapest, 1898)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 