The microbes that make our living

(Pharmacist) “With their bloody new neighborhoods that they’re building everywhere, they are destroying the microbes that make our living…”
(L’Assiette au beurre, Paris, 1903)

The pharmacist

“Ah! bah! we still notice the error fairly quickly… If the customer dies, for example…”
(L’Assiette au beurre, Paris, 1903)

With best wishes

“Here you go, my dear, oysters from the doctor, with best wishes for a good… typhoid fever.”
(Le Rire, Paris, 1903)

The smallpox statute

“There’s a statute from the Ministry of the Little People that’s just come out.”
“Has it really? What luck! And what is it?”
“We no longer have to be vaccinated if we don’t want to; from now on we can get smallpox undisturbed…”
(De ware Jacob, Rotterdam, 1903)