Balthasar Bekker and Christian Scriver sieve diseases from devils. Engraving, 1731.

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[1731]
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994i
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Balthasar Bekker and Christian Scriver sieve diseases from devils. Engraving, 1731. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Inscription on old mount names the second man as "Magister Christian Scheiner", in error for Scriver

The diseases which are being sieved out of the devils are: Raving, Melancholy, Sleep-walking, Irrationality, Delusion, Convulsions, Enthusiasm, Spleen, Epilepsy

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[Frankfurt] ; Leipzig : [publisher not identified], [1731]

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1 print : engraving

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So sichtet Becker zwar nach seiner Kunst die Teufel; Allein, der Lügegeist vermehret nur den Zweifel. The sieve is inscribed Die Sichtung. The diseases falling through the mesh are inscribed as follows: Raserey, Melancholie, Mon<d>sucht, Unsinnigkeit, Wahnwitz, Paroxismus, Enthus<iasmus>, Mitzkranckheit, Fallende Sucht

References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 230.1
18th century blues: exploring the melancholy mind, Gateshead: Shipley Art Gallery, 2008, [unnumbered pages]

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Wellcome Collection 994i

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