What is Optician?
'''Opticians''' fit [[Eyeglasses|eyeglasse]]<nowiki/>s or [[contact lens]]<nowiki/>es from a [[prescription]] from an optometrist or ophthalmologist. Generally they run businesses. In some countries they may be paid by health services or health insurers. The earliest known opticians are in the thirteenth century in Italy.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_peIL7hVQUmwC|last=Ilardi|first=Vincent|publisher=American Philosophical Society|year=2007|isbn=9780871692597|location=Philadelphia}}</ref> In the British National Health Service about 5 million pairs of spectacles were provided each year in the 1950s.<ref>{{Cite book|title=National Health Service The first thirty years|last=Abel-Smith|first=Brian|publisher=HMSO|year=1978|isbn=0113202490|location=London}}</ref> See also: [[Optics]] ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Ophthalmology]] [[Category:Healthcare occupations]]