active 1720-1721 Monsieur Verny

Records found through library and archival sources identify Monsieur Verny as a French figure active around 1720–1721. Wellcome Collection catalogs him under that date range, and Royal Society material describes a Monsieur Verny as an apothecary in Montpellier, France.

He is best known today as one of the credited authors of A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles, alongside François Chicoyneau and Monsieur Soulier. The work is tied to the devastating Marseille plague outbreak of 1720 and reflects the close connection between medicine, observation, and public reporting in that period.

Earlier Royal Society material also attributes to him a paper on alkermes, a substance discussed for medicinal and dyeing uses. Very little biographical detail seems to survive beyond these publication records, but the sources that do remain suggest a practical medical writer whose name endures through a small number of historically valuable texts.