Milly, Nicolas Christiern de Thy de (1728-1784)

Mémoire de l'Académie de Berlin, 1771: Sur une Substance aëriforme qui émane du corps humain, et sur la manière de la receuillir (Incomplete). Traduit de l'allemand par Vital Chaussegros. Translator's holograph MS. Produced in Paris.

c. 1820

1 volume 1 l. + 11 pp. + 15 bl. ll. 4to. 22 1/2 × 18 1/2 cm. Unbound. Title and headings in red, the text within double red rules.

From the Chaussegros Collection.

The author of this Mémoire, served as an officer in the French Dragoons. On his retirement from the Army he devoted himself to the study of chemistry and alchemy. He died of poisoning in his laboratory at Chailly.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).