“Bundle him up Bedclothes & all & off with him to the Hospital as quickly as possible. Fumigate the Room instantly or I’ll not answer for the safety of the Neighborhood for never was there a more glaring Case of Cholera.”
(inspecting chamber pot) “Bless me! here be the Strongest Symptoms of Some Disorder…”
(G. Tregear, London, 1832, via National Library of Medicine)
“The scent lies strong here, do you see anything?”
Robert Seymour, presumed McLeans Monthly Sheet of Caricatures, London (1832), via National Library of Medicine
George Cruikshank, “The Central Board of Health: Cholera Consultation” (1832)
(From the Manfred Kraemer Collection of Medical Prints and Satires, Countway Library, Harvard University)
Allegory of the threat to Vienna from the cholera epidemic in 1831/32: The personification of Austria kneels on the coat of arms with five eagles (larks) and looks imploringly to the sky. Hovering behind her is the personification of cholera with bat wings and a vessel that she empties into the Danube. The scene takes place on the Kahlenberg with a view of the Leopoldsberg and the Danube valley, with the city of Vienna at dawn on the right in the background. Leopold Bucher, 1832.
(Austrian National Library)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 