CHT235380 The Orvietan Seller, from \'Cris et Costumes de Paris\', engraved by Guyot (coloured engraving) by Watteau, Louis Joseph (Watteau de Lille) (1731-98) (after); Ordre National des Pharmaciens, Paris, France; (add.info.: selling Venice treacle, believed to be a remedy against poison; 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.