The therapeutics of ocular refraction

Historical Significance: Victor Brumer was a Melbourne based optometrist known for his controversial views on the use of plus lenses to control myopia. His son Maurice was also an optometrist, having studied at the University of Melbourne. Maurice was known for his vigorous advocacy of using plus lenses for the control of myopia, so vigorous that he disrupted the optometry section Presidental address at the 1978 ANZAAS meeting in Melbourne in a way that attracted local TV stations. He was protesting the refusal of the optometry ANZAAS committee to accept his paper. He also represented his views to the Federal Minister for Health. He was so disputatious that he was expelled from membership of the OAA and became engaged in legal dispute with it. (See Cat No 887 and 1682).