“You complain of headache, madame, and you also have some fever. It seems to be a mild case of influenza, a sort of influenza-straggler…”
“You will prove wrong, finest doctor, examine better. I take care to join in a fashion only when it is completely new.”
(Die Bombe, Vienna, 1890)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 
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