optometry

optometry
The employment of any means other than drugs for the measurement of the power of vision and the adaptation of lenses for the aid thereof. McNaughton v Johnson, 242 US 344, 61 L Ed 352, 37 S Ct 178; Sage-Allen Co. v Wheeler, 119 Conn 667, 179 A 195, 98 ALR 897. Including, subject to same limitation as to means, diagnosis of any optical defect, deficiency, or deformity of the human eye, or visual or muscular anomoly of the visual system, but not including treatment of diseases of the eye. Anno: 141 ALR 890. More narrowly, the measurement of the range of vision. Anno: 141 ALR 883. Not the practice of medicine, being an applied arm of optical science resting upon the work and discoveries of physicists and opticians through the ages down to modern times. Silver v Lansburgh & Bro. 72 App DC 77, 111 F2d 518, 128 ALR 582; Abelson, Inc. v New York State Board of Optometrists, 5 NJ 412, 75 A2d 867, 22 ALR2d 929.

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