Commas everywhere!

(The specter in the center is labeled “Comma,” signifying the cholera vibrio.)
Upper left: Now physicians are trying to do the right thing and penetrate inside their patients in order to ascertain whether they have the comma.
Upper right: Public health workers are searching for commas in every cesspool.
(Razvlechenie, Moscow, 1885)

Lower left: The Boss: “I can’t read your documents, there are so many commas! Right now it’s not even safe.”
Lower right: Husband: “Give you money to travel abroad, and where will I get it? The comma is there, too!”
Wife: “Oh, I want to go abroad to get away from this comma, too”