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

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

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

1 print : engraving

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

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]

Wellcome Collection 994i