Only those who want smallpox!

Joe Public: “Just look at what is foresight and what is ignorance! All who vaccinate and revaccinate are clean and healthy against the black plague! All those who do not vaccinate themselves, out of ignorance, through negligence, or simply a spirit of opposition, or are marked for life or go dragging that sucker to the netherworld! Only those who have smallpox and want to die of it; that is, anyone who does not get vaccinated!”
Smallpox: “Shut up, wretch! Do not tell these truths! Do not harm my death harvest!”
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1914) (shaky on the idiom)

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)

Christmas eve, 1914

“Hey, Little Father, no cheating: tobacco to us… and cholera to the Krauts!”
(Le Rire, Paris, 1914)

Summery

“Hey, everyman, turn around! It is I, the Caucasian plague, who is coming to you!!”
“And I, the Balkan, going to war again!”
“And I, the Chinese, approaching your border…”
Summer everyman: “Damn it, damn the newspaper … Ach, it’s so pale and plump!”
(Novyi Satirikon, St. Petersburg, 1914)

Passing the “pass”

The typhus bullfighter. “Heaven forbid, what a horn!…”
(This has to be the most explicit in the ongoing clystère theme.)
(La Campana de Gracia, Barcelona, 1914)

The Prime Minister heads to Barcelona

Let’s see if this typhus is as important as the alarmists say.
(La Campana de Gracia, Barcelona, 1914)

Hygienic measures against typhus

City official: “Come on, look lively!… Here are the sanitary instructions.”
(La Campana de Gracia, Barcelona, 1914)

The hygienists and Dato

Eduardo Dato Iradier was a Spanish Conservative politician and prime minister at the time of this cartoon.
Hygienists: “We are ready to attack typhus here in Spain.”
Dato: “That’s really good; but don’t attack it too much… Think about our neutrality.”
(La Campana de Gracia, Barcelona, 1914)

Typhus in Barcelona

…or the bar in a city hall.
(La Esquella de la torratxa, Barcelona, 1914)

Teutonic icon

Here there is no other trinity than God, Me, and Typhus.
(La Esquella de la torratxa, Barcelona, 1914)

Weekly show: Danse macabre

Synthesis of weekly public health newsletters…
A thrill of horror passes through Joe Public’s spine, seeing every week this danse macabre, touched by the inexorable Cape!…
And the one who also senses the consumption in his pockets, seems to exclaim:
“Good God, how long will I have to wait for these so-called Hygiene measures against this terrible specter that also makes me dance on the tightrope?!…”
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1914)

Globéol reconstitutes the nervous system

This Brazilian advertisement is a bit distant from our pandemic concerns, but we’ll include on a technicality. In addition to the many nervous ailments it is purported to fight, Globéol also claims to have benefits for tuberculosis. Need we dwell on the horrific brain image?
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1914)

Bahia exports

(It has been verified that the yellow fever patients admitted to the isolation ward are all from Bahia.)
“This is what the relaxation of the Bahia government is exporting to Rio de Janeiro, associated with the sheer (?) disability of its Hygiene” (i.e., public health organizations).
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1914)

Enjoyment

(Wife waiting for husband?) “It’s been half an hour since they’ve been chatting next to a beer garden… Let’s see if I can catch typhus!…”
(La Esquella de la torratxa, Barcelona, 1914)

Esperanto course

The all-purpose kiosk includes medical consultation with Dr. Gutierrez, specialist in Asiatic diseases like cholera, bubonic plagues, and yellow fever.
(La Esquella de torratxa, Barcelona, 1927)