ophthalmologistn.

1826 Lancet 2 Sept. 719/2 Whence is it that an ophthalmologist (οϕθαλμιων) communicates this disease easily to the eye of a sound person?

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 166 No ophthalmologist..has paid so much attention to this subject [sc. cataract] as Professor Beer.

1876 Bibliogr. Encycl. Ohio 36/2 Dr. Williams is the pioneer ophthalmologist in America, and Cincinnati, therefore, has the honor of introducing this new science to the western world.

1900 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 393 Von Graefe, the great ophthalmologist, first surveyed the fundus of the living human eye.

1959 Jrnl. Philos. 56 608 The whole process of analysis is no more ‘existential’ than an examination of the eyes by an opthalmologist.

1990 Health Guardian Nov. 11/2 The late W H Bates was an American ophthalmologist who devised a highly effective system of exercises and relaxation to improve vision.