Popular lessons about the occurrence and fight with this contagion.
(text by August Ritter, drawings by Wilhelm Scholz, Kladderadatsch, Germany, 1848)
Symptoms
Change of face: The face of the patient assumes an expression of the most profound suffering. Even lectures of members of the Prussian Union have no effect.
Sleeplessness: A spoonful of marching music hourly.
Sharp heartburn: State bonds at 74%!!!
The nose becomes sharp, the jaw drops, and the teeth remain uncovered by the lips.
Internal heat: Persistent thirst, powerful sobbing after the pleasure of liquids.
Headache, reddened forehead, increasing agitation of the patient, acting from one side to the other. [vegetables are being lobbed from all sides]
Remedies
Production of blood circulation: The patient easily breaks into a sweat.
Undisturbed calm: Avoid stimulation, seek to maintain a the most cheerful possible mood.
Final remedy
Doctor: The patient has at most ten minutes left to live.
Gendarme: Excuse me, here is the finding of the chamber court: ten years confinement for seeking stimulation.
Doctor: That changes things! Perhaps deliverance lies there.
Avoid chills: Do not wear clothing that is too warm or too light.
The main thing is to be led away.
Sic Transit Pestilentia 