English: Marele colector colectivist ("The Great Collectivist Gutter"), depicting political life in 1888–1889 Romania. The new Conservative administration using phenol, a powerful disinfectant, to clean out the streets of Bucharest, infested by the outgoing National Liberal government. The disinfecting team, from left: Lascăr Catargiu, Nicolae Fleva, unknown (possibly Theodor Rosetti and George D. Vernescu, or the physician Iacob Felix), Petre P. Carp, Gheorghe Gr. Cantacuzino, and, in the background, physician Victor Babeș. The "rats" include Ion Brătianu and Mihail Kogălniceanu.