An Italian Cure-All Experiences a Comeback

This story was originally published in our Mar/Apr 2023 issue. Click here to subscribe to read more stories like this one. Whoever studies the history of medicine finds L’Orvietan,” says Lamberto Bernardini. In his laboratory in Orvieto, Italy, a medieval hill town famous for its soaring duomo, that history is all around. Bernardini’s vaulted, frescoed space dates to the 1200s. One of the rooms in his lab is a museum-like space filled with historic books and framed an