The new Titusz Dugovics

Caption: The one who is pulling the plague off the walls of Vienna on his own. (Following a visit by four staff members to India to study the plague, the Institute of Pathology in Vienna unwittingly developed a pneumonic strain leading to four fatalities, sparking fears of a renewed outbreak in Europe. The man depicted is Dr. Hermann Franz Müller, who treated the first fatality and then died three days later. Titusz Dugovics was a mythical Hungarian soldier who had helped fend off Ottoman invaders in the fifteenth century.)
(Kakas Martón, Budapest, 1898)

Hungarian plague cartoon

Cholera

The nut is coming!

“My lord, I am going on a trip to Europe, and I think it very fair that you should transport my luggage.”
“I shall take it with pleasure, but charge for the passage.”

“Have they called?”
(Surely it’s the fulminating cholera.)
“Come on, open up, Arturo.”
“No; ladies first.”

“I am terrible, I am cruel. Whoever catches a sip of me….. Cholera morbo is here for anyone who wants something from him!”

(Madrid Cómico, Madrid, 1883)

Spanish cholera cartoon

Old friends

Civil War: “Hello, calamity! Where are you doing?”
Cholera: “To Spain.”
Civil War: “Well, you are wasting your time, because there they are warned, and neither you nor I can count on the honest masses.” (Given the poor legibility of the final phrase and my ignorance of the living Spanish language, this probably needs correction.)
(Gedeón, Madrid, 1910)

Spanish cholera cartoon