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Term
In America refraction and dispensing had been the exclusive domain of opticianry until _______ book on refraction. 
Definition
Donders
Term
By the end of _______ a _________ eye care system had evolved. It included which type of individuals?
Definition

1870s

tripartite

eye physicians

refracting opticians 

dispensing opticians

Term
Define oculist
Definition
medical practioner
Term
Define opthalmologist
Definition
educated in eye medicine and surgery and offered refraction service but did not dispense opthalmic products
Term
Define refracting opticians
Definition
offered refraction services and relate services including dispensing of spectacles 
Term
Define dispensing opticians
Definition
performed no refractions and offered no services. Business only depended upon the prescriptions of eye physicians for a source of income
Term
By the ____, physicians regarded ________ and related services to be part of medicine
Definition

1890s

refraction

Term
Physicians thought they had a _____ over refraction?
Definition
monopoly
Term
What years are the GENESIS YEARS
Definition
1892-1924
Term

The Beginning of it all began as an ______. What state did it all begin in?

Who initiated the beginning of it all?

What type of optician was he? 

Definition
Originated as an insult-recipient- Charles Prentice, a refraction optician who practiced in New York City. 
Term
What type of instrument did Prentice employ to detect disease?
Definition
opthalmoscope 
Term
What happened in December 1892?
Definition

Prentice referred a patient with an "ocular inflammation" to Henry D. Noyes, an opthalmologist practicing in the city.

Noyes sent a note to Prentice who anticipated a thank you but instead a SLAB IN HIS FACE

Term

 Noyes send Prentice's letter to who??

What did he accuse Prentice of ?

Definition

-D.B. St. John Roosa (militant opthalmologist) 

-"violating the law", charging a fee, prescribing glasses based on findings

Term
What year did Prentice start to think of means to legalize the practice of optometry by enacting a statue by the state legislature.
Definition
1892
Term
In what year does Prentice mobilize opticians to oppose the efforts of medicine...targeting Roosa
Definition
1895
Term
Who did Prentice contact when he planned to unite NY opticians to combat the potential threat?
Definition
Fredrick Boger-editor of the Optometric Journal 
Term

WHen was the Optical Society of the State of NY established?

Who was it established by?

What group decided to desert Prentices efforts?

Definition

-February 1896

-By Prentice 

-dispensing opticians 

Term
How many opticians resolved to proceed with Prentices Plan?
Definition
11
Term

"An Act to Regulate the Practice of Optometry in the State of NY" was introduced in the State Assembly in what month and year?

 

By how many votes did the bill fail to pass the full chamber?

Definition

January 28 1897

3 votes

Term

Why did the bill fail? 

(3 reasons)

Definition

1. only had 11 backers

2. proposed to regulate all persons practicing optometry

3. included opticians and physicians

Term
What was in the bill?
Definition

The employment of subjective and objective means to determine the accomodative and refractive states of the eye and the scope of its function in general, or the act of adapting glasses to the eye by using such skilled mean as will determine their choice.

 

Bill proposed a 4 person-State Board of Examiners in Optometry

 

Test and certify all persons who desired to practice "optometry" in NY

Term
WHo were in opposition to defeat the bill? ( 2 groups)
Definition

1. Physicians (oculist and opthalmologists)

2. Dispensing opticians

 

Term

What was the significance of the bill?

 

Definition
No state in the union wrote a bill to include physicians under optometry laws.
Term

What happened in 1908?

At this time, how many states had enacted optometry laws?

Definition

NY enacts a law led by AJ Cross and EE Arrington

12

Term
What happened in June 1900?
Definition
Minnesota State Optical Association was organized .
Term
In April 1901, Which state enacted their law in less than one year. 
Definition
Minnesota
Term
In the Minnesota effort 2 provisions wee established. WHat were they 
Definition

1. grandfathering

2. physician exempting

Term
What was the driving force behind the Minnesota bill and all others were to follow?
Definition
the need for professionalism 
Term

WHen was the American Association of Opticians founded?

 

In what year did this associated adopt the term optometrist to desginate those opticians who perform refraction and related services

Definition

1898

1904

Term

In what year does the association change its name to the American optical Association?

 

In what year does the name change AGAIn to American Optometric Association

Definition

1910

1919

Term

In the case of "People for Use of State Board of Health v Smith" holds that? 

In what year

In what state?

Definition

The selling of spectacles and the treatment of defective vision is not part of the practice of medicine or surgery 

 

1903

 

Illinois

Term

In the case of Martin v Baldi, it holds that?

In what state?

In what year?

Definition

Optometry is a calling seperating from medicine and cannot be regulated by the state board of medicine as a minor branch of that profession. ALbert Fitch convnces to pursue legal action

 

Pennsylvana

 

1915

Term

WHat happened in McNaugton v Johnson ?

In what year?

Definition

state may rightfully regulate the practice of optometry through licensure thereby establishing the constitutional basis for independent profession.

 

1917

Term

WHat happened in Baker v Texas in what year?

 

Definition

In 1921, TX court of criminal appeals finds Fred Baker guilty of violating the TX medican practice act.

Baker is fined and sentenced to jail for unlawfully practicing medicne but public opinion mounts behind the outlawes optometrists and an optometry practice act is enacted by the TX legislature. 

 

exempted from punishment by the court of 1922

Term
What happened in 1923?
Definition
The Pennsylvania College of Optometry awards the FIRST O.D. Degree
Term
In what year does the District of Columbia become the last jurisdiction to enact an optometry law, completing the genesis of legalized optometry
Definition
1924.
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