“Well! let’s see, and at your place, how’s it going with you, cutie?”
“Not too bad, not too bad; lots of colds; a bit of bronchitis, some smallpox… But, as papa was saying to me yesterday, for everything to go altogether, entirely well, we would need… a good little epidemic.”
(Le Journal amusant, Paris, 1872)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 