NAO Vol 1-1-3 Evolution of Opticianry
refracting optician - ✔️✔️sight testing and providing spectacles
1873 - ✔️✔️Cuiget develops retinoscopy
-drugs used to hinder ciliary muscle action/retard accommodation
-induces dilation to allow better view of retina to diagnose disease/abnormality
after 1873
refracting optician - ✔️✔️-wanted to own legal entity
-chose to practice under Optometry
-sought/obtain state license to refract without drugs
-protesters claim that they were practicing medicine
-were able to practice over time
-early 1900s banded together for legal recognition
-legalized in 1930s with laws to exclude the use of drugs
Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye - ✔️✔️book by FC Donders MD
-gave interest to
*eye exams
*Rx lenses
after 1873
prescribing opticians - ✔️✔️-job was to supply eyeglasses as prescribed
-adopted the name dispensing optician
prescription optician - ✔️✔️limited to providing spectacles
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