Opticians In History And Today
Health care professionals who make and dispense spectacles and other corrective vision equipment are known as opticians rather than optometrists or ophthalmologists. These latter actually perform medical tests or have medical training. An optician focuses primarily on the equipment and teaching eye patients how to wear and care for their eye glasses.The tasks performed by opticians have only existed since the middle ages. Prior to this period, spectacles, or eyeglasses, were unknown to the human race. People with poor vision simply suffered or went blind. The idea of using glass, or water, to improve vision for the purposes of reading Read more »