An example of the Catalan “auca” genre devoted to cholera, one whose rhymed couplets I won’t pretend to translate in full. A contented couple learns the city will be visited by cholera and copes using the nostrums available, including chasing after an elusive vaccine. They incur fumigation along their journey, returning weakened and resigned to await the microbes.
(La Esquella de la torratxa, Barcelona, 1885)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 