The orders they gave us are these: try to arrest the epidemic and lock it up in the clink.
(Charivari, Lisbon, 1890) (Shaky on the idiom; correction welcome.)
The orders
Tag: Portuguese
Ancient medicine and modern medicine
Continuing the clystère theme from other posts.
(Parodia, Lisbon, 1906) (reprinted from L’Assiette au beurre, 1902)
On the street
“How about the benefit concert for the Leagues against Tuberculosis of Brazil and Portugal?”
“Splendid! I’ve never seen a party of its like here!”
“???!!!…”
“I’m not exaggerating! Tuberculosis has never been treated here… by music…”
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1907)
Manecas and the “pneumonica”
Some sad news for our little readers: Manecas is sick with a severe attack of pneumonia-flu and, since it is very difficult to speak, sends us this suggestive drawing, an exact expression of what he has suffered.
(Manecas was a mascot of this satirical supplement.)
(O Século Cómico / Ilustração Portuguesa, Lisbon, 1918)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 