Maitre-Jan, A.  Traite des maladies de l'oeil (1707). 

Antoine Maitre-Jan (1650-1730), the father of French ophthalmology, penned this work based on his experimental and clinical work.  He was the first to mention retinal detachment and also confirmed Pierre Brisseau's (1631-1717) assertion that a cataract is an opaque lens and not a structure in front of the lens.


(Sources: Garrison & Morton; G. Gorin's History of Ophthalmology)