Cholera

One who often makes a pilgrimage
and instigates a great tumult;
but this one may shout: Long live!
This one no longer knows how to say: Die!
(La Esquella de la torratxa, Barcelona, 1894)

Cholera in Barcelona

That’s what you have to look at, Mr. Mayor!
That’s what you should disinfect.
(La Esquella de la torratxa, Barcelona, 1894)

Hospital shops

At the epidemic butcher: “I’ll take half a portion of smallpox microbes.”
At the drugstore: “You would like typhus microbes? We don’t have fresh ones in the afternoon.”
(La Esquelle de la torratxa, Barcelona, 1894)

In Prague schools today

“Tell me, Vomáček, how does one say “foot” in German: das Fuss, der Fuss or die Fuss?”
“If you please, Your Honor: typhus!”
(Humoristké listy, Prague, 1894)