Newspaper reports: The director of Public Health and the director of the Vaccination Institute are engaged in the struggle to supply vaccines.
Hygienist Dr. Carlos Seidl: “Your Excellency, Your Excellency, don’t disturb me in the smallpox war! Just provide vaccine…”
Baron de Pedro Affonso: “Dr. Seidl, Dr. Seidl, don’t get involved in my business!”
Rivadavia [uncertain who this figure is, unless it is historical metonymy for Argentina, which handled vaccination differently?]: “That’s right, Joe! Everything is out of joint! There shouldn’t be a fight when smallpox is threatening…”
Joe Public: “What do you want? They gave His Excellency the vaccine monopoly… They put the vaccine up for negotiation…”
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1913)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 