Diagnosis: depression

“It seems that a sleeping sickness epidemic is raging in America… the business of economic recovery has also fallen asleep.”
(Az Ojság, Budapest, 1933)

Flight from Alsace

(At the French Foreign Legion Offices)
“Messieurs, according to our rules, we must draw your attention to the dangers that you can expect in the Foreign Legion: you can get sunstroke in Africa, malaria in Tonkin China, and sleeping sickness in the Congo…”
“It doesn’t matter, just so there are no Prussian lieutenants anywhere!”
(Der wahre Jacob, Stuttgart, 1914)

Bacteriological discoveries

In hypnosis Lachen links [~ “laughing on the left”] is making the most epochal discoveries. Thus the pathogens of the following illnesses are discovered:

Nine panels follow, of which I include three here. Sleeping sickness:

Hunger typhus [“tariff” vibrios]:

Judicial cholera:

(Lachen links, Berlin, 1926)

The “encephalitis lethargica”

“Is this what they call a new disease?… I’ve been suffering from it for so many years!…”
(La Campana de Gracia, Barcelona, 1920)

Local trek

“You mean your father has sleeping sickness, too? Was he in the tropics?”
“Nope, at the municipal authorities!”
(Fliegende Blätter, Munich, 1929)

Carnival’s entry

Call it influenza, flu, sleeping sickness–
Despite this lovely trinity
Finally, joyous sounds are coming again this year
The good old days of carnival!
(Nebelspalter, Zurich, 1920)