The oculists of Alexandria were very proficient, and some of their followers, at various times throughout the period of the Roman Empire, were remarkably skilful.
In the time of Galen, these quackoculists were very numerous, and Galen inveighs against them.
There was also a very ignorant class of oculistsin Rome in the time of Nero, but at Marseilles Demosthenes Philalethes was deservedly celebrated, and his book on diseases of the eye was in use for several centuries.
One of the most famous oculists of New York said I would simply have to endure it for life, as it was a case of severe astigmatism.
Oculists called it a case of double vision, and said that the only chance for a cure lay in cutting the muscles of the eyes.
Just before I commenced reading Science and Health I spent a half day in having my eyes examined by one of the leading oculists in Boston.
Boric (boracic) acid has been recently used by aurists with remarkable success in suppurating and granulating otitis media, and by oculists as an eye-wash.
Before discussing the prevention of blindness in adults, I wish to say a few words concerning the attitude of oculists toward patients suffering from eye diseases which, in all probability, will result in loss of vision.
The leading oculists of the United States are members of the society.
I wish the oculists could hear as I do the despairing cry of men and women who were led, until the very last, to hope for a restoration of eyesight, and then told that in their particular case, all usual remedies failed.
The leading oculists of the country recommend sight-saving classes, and many of them give their time and money to the service of these handicapped children, establishing clinics for their care and treatment.
Scientific treatment of the eyes and of the teeth have both become special professions; you'll find good oculists and good dentists in nearly every town.
We must therefore look to the oculists to take the first steps towards lessening the number of their prospective patients by inculcating rational notions about the effects of the printed page on the eye.
The large-type collection is used, not only by elderly persons, but also in greater number by young persons whose oculists forbid them to read fine print, or who do not desire to wear glasses.
Some of the greatest oculists in the world had looked into my sightless eyes and pronounced my case utterly hopeless.
The three greatest oculists in London all agreed that I was incurable, yet there one day came to me a man who said he could give me back my sight.
Then I felt his fingers open my eyelids wide, and knew that he was gazing into my eyes through one of those glasses like other oculists had used.
Oculists are liable to draw wrong conclusions, just as other persons may do," he remarked.
He actually placed himself in direct opposition to the practice of the three greatest oculists in the world.
Some of them were known under the names of the oculists who invented or employed them.
Hence it may, with great probability, be concluded, that either these stamps were used byoculists alone, or they were used by the general medical practitioner in marking his eye-medicines only.
Sichel, the Penicillum consisted of a pledget or folds of charpie, which the ancient oculists used both for the purpose of cleansing the eyes, and of introducing into them soothing washes and collyria.
His father was half out of his mind: took him to oculists in London and oculists in Paris.
And they know the terrible canon, for he has sent many of them serious attacks of ophthalmia which the oculists cannot cure.
The oculists see only the eyes, and, to cure them, quite calmly poison the body.
According to Jimmie, all the other oculists had insisted he must consult Picard, and might consider what Picard said as final.
When his friends expressed surprise, Jimmie told them of the oculists he had consulted, and that they had informed him his case was hopeless.
The next morning to fouroculists Jimmie detailed his symptoms.
To give a semblance of truth to this he would that day consult distinguished oculists and, in spite of their assurances, would tell them that slowly and surely his eyesight was failing him.
Laymen and physicians must be taught that it is just as unethical and unprofessional for oculists and physicians to fail to bring their knowledge within the practical reach of the masses as for the optician to advertise his wares.
To prevent this self-deception skilled oculists do not trust the eye card, but put a drug in the eye that benumbs the muscles of accommodation.
In cities oculists can be found who will be glad to explain to teachers, individually or in groups, how the cards should be used and what dangers to avoid.
In June, 1907, a group of eminent oculists recommended to the school board of New York City that teachers make this first test after being instructed by oculists.
In this opinion a medical gentleman of high celebrity, in Oxford, coincided; but he strongly recommended me to consult some of the most eminent oculists in the Metropolis.
The best oculists concur in the opinion that reflected and concentrated light are highly injurious.
Some oculists prefer to have the light fall over the left shoulder.
WE were left together; Nugent having accompanied the two oculists to the garden-gate.
I have brought Oscar back with me," he said to Lucilla; "and I have told him how widely the two oculists differ in opinion on your case.
On re-entering the room, we found the eminent oculists seated as far apart as possible one from the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oculists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
