Several men are sitting at a table behind which stands Death holding a scythe in one hand and an hourglass in the other; the men are smoking and drinking, and each suffers a particular affliction: gout, dropsy, madness, apoplexy, poverty, or disgrace. Engraving appeared in Medical adviser, and guide to health and long life, No. 36, title page, 1824. Dance of Death, also called Danse Macabre (French), Danza Macabra (Italian), Dansul Mortii (Romanian), Danza de la Muerte (Spanish), Dansa de la Mort (Catalan), Danca Macabra (Portuguese language), Totentanz (German), Dodendans (Dutch), Surmatants (Estonian), is an artistic genre of late medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.