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Ophthalmologists= Pictured Right: Watercolour of a nun with a bleeding eye, Arzneibuch Compendium of popular medicine and surgery, 1675 Below is a list but please add any Ophthalmologists profiles on Geni to this project.You may also be interested in Corrective VIsion Opticians ===18th–19th centuries===* Joseph Forlenze* Theodor Leber discovered Leber's congenital amaurosis, Leber's hereditary ...
Optometry is a health care profession which involves examing the eyes for defects, abnormalities, or diseases.If you have optometrists in your family tree, then please join this project. Once you join, you can add your profiles of the optometrists in your family. Opticians can also be added to this group. They helped the optometrists with fitting glasses on patients that the optometrists prescr...
Opticians - Corrective Vision=The first known artistic representation of eyeglasses was painted by Tommaso da Modena in 1352. He did a sequence of frescoes of brothers efficiently reading or replicating manuscripts; one holds a magnifying glass while the other has glasses suspended on his nose. Once Tommaso had established the example, other painters positioned spectacles on the noses of many o...