OCULISTS OR OPTOMETRISTS—WHICH?

Abstract

I think we can state with perfect fairness that the majority of optometrists are in the main making an honest effort, through preliminary training and the establishment of definite standards of ethics and proficiency, to render service to the public. However, during the last five or six years there has been a growing activity on the part of certain optometrists, some of whom hold official positions in state optometric organizations, which can be interpreted only as an attempt to restrict the rights of the regularly licensed oculist so far as the fitting and prescribing of glasses is concerned, even looking forward to the time when all oculists will be compelled by law to pass an examination before the board of optometry of the state in which they may be located. As several of these incidents have recently come to my notice, I wrote the attorney general of each of our