The Scope, Vol. 9

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Excerpt from The Scope, Vol. 9: March, 1937The honor of optometry needs no defend ing! It has a heritage as ancient and as ancient and as honorable as any of the major professions, its history is just as awe-inspiring, its rank in the realm Of human Welfare is unimpeachable. Optics is a branch of physics, and not of medicine. We are in reality physicists, trained in the science of treating light, and not the eye. The vast majority Of cases that come into our hands require simply a treatment of the entering light to produce the highest pos sible Visual acuity in a given human optical system: surely we are far better equipped to deal with such cases than, say, Otis Clapp is to supply the public with abdomi nal belts, trusses, arch supports, or aids to hearing. Ass E. E. Arrington in his History Of Optometry tersely puts it, Physics is not physic, a lens is not a pill! Those comparatively few cases in which faulty! Vision is due to a diseased condition, we are thoroughly trained to detect and refer to the specialist.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.