Balthasar Bekker and Christian Scriver sieve diseases from devils
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Title
Balthasar Bekker and Christian Scriver sieve diseases from devils
Subject
Diseases in the 1700s
Description
Bekker and Scriver surround an old mount in an attempt to sieve out diseases from devils above them. The diseases that are being sieved out of the devils are Raving, Melancholy, Sleep-walking, Irrationality, Delusion, Convulsions, Enthusiasm, Spleen, and Epilepsy. The original lettering on the image is in German.
Creator
N/A
Source
Publisher
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 230.1
Date
1731
Contributor
Fiorella Gambetta
Rights
Public Domain
Language
German
Type
Portrait prints, engravings
Files
Citation
N/A, “Balthasar Bekker and Christian Scriver sieve diseases from devils,” Enlightenmens, accessed August 8, 2022, http://enlightenmens.lmc.gatech.edu/items/show/920.