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active 1720-1721 Monsieur Verny
Best known as one of the physicians linked to an early English account of the 1720 plague in Marseille, this little-documented writer survives in the record more through the crisis he helped describe than through a full personal biography.
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A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles Its Symptoms and the Methods and Medicines Used for Curing It
by François Chicoyneau, Monsieur Soulier, active 1720-1721 Monsieur Verny
About the author
Very little biographical information appears to survive about Monsieur Verny beyond catalog records that identify him as active in 1720–1721. He is associated with A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles, an English translation of observations on the devastating Marseille plague, written with François Chicoyneau and Monsieur Soulier.
Because the historical record is so thin, it is safest to view Verny as a medical observer or collaborator whose name is preserved mainly through this plague narrative. That work remains of interest as a firsthand-era contribution to the literature of epidemic disease and public health in early eighteenth-century France.