Word: oculist
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...changes over, dates back to Eliot's report of 1873-74. He mentioned at that early date "a division of opinion in the dental profession as to the expedience of having a separate degree for dentists, some persons maintaining that every dentist should be, like an oculist or acurist, a doctor of medicine...
Eliot raised the issue even more exactly in his report of 1880-81 and actually started the upheaval which Conant carried out. "Some dentists maintain," wrote Eliot, "that a dentist, like an oculist, is a physician with a speciality, and that nothing short of the full course for the degree of Doctor of Medicine can be satisfactory; others say that a dentist is simply a fine craftsman, and that there is little use of any training except that of the eye and hand. The Harvard Dental School occupies an intermediate position, which satisfies neither of these extreme parties...
...privileges of my life. I reached Helen Keller's home at the appointed time and was ushered into the living room by the maid who said that Helen Keller had to go unexpectedly to New York. Her teacher, Mrs. Macy--her "liberatorr and guardian angel"--had to consult an oculist as she was losing her eyesight rapidly and Helen Keller went with her and her secretary. So while waiting I availed myself of the invitation to look at her library and read any book I wished. In addition to other books, I noticed the works of Mark Twain, Carlyle, Turgeney...
...Frank Cerra of Scranton, Pa. could not see her newborn son: while the baby was being delivered, she had gone totally blind. Her doctor told her that she had had an optic hemorrhage. Mrs. Cerra went to an oculist: he told her she would never see again. That was eleven years...
Expendable Resources. The timber industry had undergone a revolution: logging in 1950 would send an oldtime Wobbly or an oldtime "bull o' the woods" lurching off to consult an oculist-or a bartender. The steam donkey, the logging locomotive, the oldtime logging camp had all but faded out; Caterpillars crashed and thundered through the fir jungles, yanking new-cut logs along, and truck &. trailer rigs took them to the mill. Loggers still wore "tin" pants, calked boots and red hats, but they felled trees with power saws, lived in town, and rode into the woods on buses...