Midterm 1: Introduction to Optometry (With complete solution)

Primary health care practitioners of the eye and visual system correct answers What is the role of an optometrist? * Refraction and dispensing * Detection, diagnosis, and management of eye diseases * Rehabilitation of conditions of the visual system correct answers What are some services that optometrists provide? 1604 correct answers What year did Johannes Kepler publish correct explanation that concave lenses correct myopia and convex lenses correct presbyopia? 1621 correct answers What year was Snell's Law of Refraction published by Willobroad Snell (Light bends in a predicted amount when travelling from one medium to another)? 1784 correct answers What year did Benjamin Franklin construct the executive bifocal? 1799 correct answers What year did John McAllister establish the first US optical shop in Philadelphia? 1851 correct answers What year did German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz invent the direct ophthalmoscope and wrote a physiological optics textbook? 1862 correct answers What year did Dutch ophthalmologist Hermann Snellen create the Snellen eye chart for measuring visual acuity? 1872 correct answers What year was the first college of optometry founded? Illinois College of Optometry correct answers What was the first college of optometry, which started as a two-year program? 1887 correct answers What year did AE Fick and FA Mueller make contact lenses out of blown glass? Blown glass correct answers What material were the first contact lenses made out of? 1895 correct answers What year was Charles Prentice ("Father of optometry") threatened with jail for charging a fee for an eye exam? 1898 correct answers What year was the American Association of Opticians founded?