CHT236384 Box for orvietan (lead) by French School, (18th century); Ordre National des Pharmaciens, Paris, France; (add.info.: Orvietan was a medical concoction used as a panacea against poisonings, snakebite, plague; Gerolamo Ferranti started producing and selling orvi矇tan in early 17th-century Paris. He was a fairground attraction, asking onlookers to give him unknown poisons to swallow and watch him cure himself with the remedy. ); 穢 Archives Charmet; French, out of copyright.