American Medical Biographies/Chatard, Pierre
Chatard, Pierre (1767–1848)
Pierre Chatard was born at Cape Francois, San Domingo, July 17, 1767, and educated in France, settling in Baltimore in 1797. He was a prolific writer, his paper, "An Account of a Case of Fistula Lachrymalis, with reflections on the different modes of operating in that disease," being the earliest Baltimore publication having reference to diseases of the eye. (Medical Repository, vol. vii, p. 28.)
He held the Montpellier, France, M. D. and was consulting physician to the Baltimore Hospital and member of the faculty of Washington University. He died in Baltimore on January 5, 1848.
Early History of Ophthalmology. Friedenwald.
Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, 1897.