Jean Méry

Through studies on human cadavers (he dissected as many as two hundred) and animals he made anatomical comparisons and attempted to explain physiology and functioning.

1692 Mery was sent to England by Louis XIV on a secretive mission, possibly to examine the claim that the Prince of Wales was illegitimate.

[2] In 1697 Frere Jacques, the famous itinerant lithotomist of the time was invited to demonstrate his methods under the supervision of Méry.

[5][6] He made examinations of the fundus of a cat's eye and conducted a post-mortem study of the eye of a human with iris bombé and finding no fluid between the iris and the lens, he inferred that the aqueous humor was generated behind the lens and suggested that glands he noticed were involved in their production.

[7][1] He argued with Philippe de La Hire on the mechanism of control of the pupil opening by the iris, again incorrectly.

Portrait in the Hôtel-Dieu suggested as having been painted by Hyacinthe Rigaud [ 1 ]