Coloured etching from 1832 by Johann Benedikt Wunder depicting “Cholera Prevention Man". The caption reads “A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections against the cholera epidemic”.
Featured on PDR in the essay Laughter in the Time of Cholera
Political instability, popular unrest, and an impending pandemic? Welcome to France in the early 1830s. Vlad Solomon explores what made Parisians laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play.
Also appearing in the essay…
Cholera Prevention Man
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1832
