Mistaking cause for effect

Boy: “I say, Tommy, I’m blow’d if there isn’t a man a turning on the cholera.”
(Punch, London, 1849)

The future of inoculation

Ah, the spirit of speculation in the vaccination market.
(Punch, London, 1881)

One warning more!

Scene: Mud-salad market. (Cholera lurking in the miasmatic background)
Mr. Punch (Inspector of Nuisances): “Now, then, my noble stick-in-the-mud, I’ve told you to clear up this place long ago, wake up, or it will be too late!”
(Punch, London, 1885)

Manners and modes

The influenza epidemic: Antiseptics in the ballroom.
(Punch, London, 1922)

The prevailing epidemic

Old woman eating gruel: “Ah! You may laugh, my boy; but it’s no joke being funny with the influenza.”
(Punch, London, 1847)

A court for King Cholera

This may be the most famous cholera cartoon in the English-speaking world, but since a high-quality copy is archived in a slightly unexpected place, we might as well catalogue it here as well.
(Punch, London, 1852)

Cricket!

So very English, this Punch cartoon from 1869.

Cholera consultation

George Cruikshank, “The Central Board of Health: Cholera Consultation” (1832)
(From the Manfred Kraemer Collection of Medical Prints and Satires, Countway Library, Harvard University)

Father Thames

Father Thames introducing his offspring to the fair city of London: diphtheria, scrofula, cholera.
(Punch, London, 1858)

‘ave a look at my tongue

(Punch, London, 1918)

Malingering malaria

(Punch, London, 1919)

Merital

“The metric’s right here,” insists the American President regarding criteria for exiting our physical distancing regimen. A friendly public service reminder not to take medical advice from a TV huckster. (Wellcome Collection) (And see the inimitable Tom Toles’ superior rendering.)