Orvietan or orviétan was a medical concoction popular during the 17th and 18th centuries. It was used as a panacea against poisonings with criminal intent...

Atlas des plantes de France, 1891 V. officinalis V. officinalis foliage Orvietan Spikenard Corvalol Although many sources list "catinine" as an alkaloid...

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niche in the lower wall contains explicit references to two important Orvietan martyr saints, San Pietro Parenzo and San Faustino. The contract for Signorelli's...

wall is shown a Pietà that contains explicit references to two important Orvietan martyr saints, S. Pietro Parenzo (podestà of Orvieto in 1199) and S. Faustino...

meeting of the Curia in Orvieto as a tradition. He was rewarded by the Orvietans by being elected Podestà and Capitano del Popolo, the first pope to hold...

quack cure salesmen often promoted any kind of oil as the "nine oils". Orvietan: this herbal concoction was used in the 17th and 18th centuries as a panacea...

in which he denounced in the same time charlatans and their powders of orvietan. After his death, his widow, Delphine Rapin, married Vincent-Amable de...

patron saint of the city of Orvieto. During the late 12th century, the Orvietan bishopric underwent an economic crisis that resulted from the burden of...

an act of desperation, Sganarelle visits a street charlatan to purchase Orviétan, a legendary remedy that can cure any illness, but the audience never learns...

kept secret for over seventeen centuries. Another medication included was orvietan. Charas is considered an important figure for the dissemination of medical...