The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 9, February 24, 2002, Article 13

POLISH POISONING PLOT MEDAL

  In the category of "you don't see one of these every day"
  comes lot 1873 in the March 7-8, 2002 Stack's auction
  sale.  The "Dr. Onuphrio Orlowski Poisoning Plot Medal
  1782" is a "tribute to botanist Orlowski, who detected
  and denounced a carefully organized plot to poison his
  chief, Jean Gilbert, Professor of Natural Sciences at
  Vilna (Vilnius) Academy."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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