In the 17th, 18th, and 19th
centuries writings and works on Iris markings and their meanings were
recorded, largely by medical practitioners. One of the earliest was Dr.
Ignatz von Peczely, a Hungarian doctor. When he was 11 years old, he
accidently broke the leg of an owl when it instinctively fought against
being captured. The boy noticed a black mark appearing in the owl s iris
as victor and captor glared at each other. As von Peczely nursed the owl
back to health, and in the following years of a more voluntary
relationship, be noticed the mark, which appeared upon injury, changing in
form and shading.
Ignatz von Peczely qualified in
medicine in 1867 at the Vienna medical College. During his
internship he had ample opportunity to study the irides of patients BEFORE
and AFTER surgery. He also performed innumerable autopsies and,
throughout, researched, systematically, his earlier findings, correlating
and extending his knowledge, before publishing his book "Discoveries
in the Realms of Nature and Art of Healing", establishing his Iris
Chart, in 1880.
Meanwhile, in the 1860’s, a
Swedish boy, Nils Liljequist, was reduced from a robust young man, to a
sickly boy as a result of vaccination, followed by much drugging with
quinine and iodine. Between the ages of 14 and 20, he noted the changes in
the colour of his formerly blue eyes, as the drug spots accumulated. In
1870 be published a paper, "Quinine and Iodine change the Colour of
the iris". Changing his career pathway from that of allopathic
medicine, Liljequist, became a Homoeopath, as that was the treatment,
which restored him. After studying many of his patients, he published
"Om Ogendiagnosen’ in 1893, which included his Iris chart. Human
anatomy being what it is, we should not be surprised that both his chart,
and von Peczely’s, were so similar.
Much of the American medical
research stemmed from the Austrian emigre, Dr. Henry Edward Lane, who
carried out most of his surgical and autopsy correlations with Iride
markings, at the Kosmos sanitarium in Evanston, Illonois. His book,
lridology. The Diagnosis from the Eye", was published in 1904 as The
Scientific Essay for the Public and Medical Profession", and he
substanciates his records with the fact that thousands were examined
before lust one marking could be considered corroborated".
One of Dr. Lane’s students was
Henry Lindlahr, M.D., the champion of "the healing crises". He
too, became a surgeon, and amongst his vast written works, placing nature
cures onto a scientific basis, in 1919, he published lridiognosis and
Other Diagnostic Methods".
The well-known writings of
Bernard Jensen, D.C., N.D., Ph.D., stem from his photographic and
medically corroborated research. He had studied under Dr. Lindlahr and
also worked for two nights a week for four years, at the International
School of Professional Arts and Sciences, in San Francisco, California,
with the Chiropractor, R.M. McLain, on an intensive study and
investigation into using Iridology as a means of analysing patients’
problems. Jensen states, in his book "IRIDOLOGY. The Science and
Practice of the Healing Arts. Volume II’ that "Dr. McLain proved
conclusively that iridology was practical and scientific by the beneficial
results he achieved with patients".
Dr. J. Haskel Kritzer, recorded
his lifetime of research into iris diagnosis, in his textbook "Iridodiagnosis",
soon to be republished by The Holistic Health College, London. It was his
work which spurred Bernard Jensen onto further research, developing a more
up—to—date iris chart, along with a colleague of Dr. Kritzer, Dr. John
R. Arnold, founder of the World Iridology Fellowship. Dr. Arnold insisted
on the SCIENTIFIC EXACTNESS of any research before it could be considered
valid. He was the main instigator in changing the term iridiagnosis’ to
‘iris analysis", which more accurately reflects that it is a means
of analysing CONDITIONS WITHIN rather than specific diseases.
Dr. V.L. Fernandiz, a medical and
naturopathic physician, in Barcelona, Spain, published, in 1970, a
comprehensive work, "Iridodiagnosis’, clearly illustrating how
valuable early diagnosis was, from the iris, before pathological states
advance enough to be clinically diagnosed. He stated that "the great
advantage of iridology to medical doctors is its reliability as an
indicator of the early stages of disease, allowing many more lives to be
saved.’
There are many more researchers
who deserve acknowledgement, such as the Germans, Josef Deck, Theodor
Kriege, Josef Angerer Dr. H.W. Schimmeland Dr. Rudolf Schnable, to name
but a few. There is a great deal of intensive research and writings on
Iridology, but we have concentrated here on the MEDICOS. For the benefit
of those who have not had a chance to investigate the enormous amount of
scientific research, involving millions of case histories, worldwide
research, utilizing surgery, autopsy, X-ray, scanning and chemical
analysis, in Russia, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, America,
South America and Europe, we trust this synopsis will clarify matters on
the optic-neuro reflexed information provided by over 2800 exposed nerve
endings. Just as the vascular system, exposed in the posterior of the
inner eye is most revealing, so are the autonomic and central nerve system
exposures.
Today, Iridology is part of the
curriculum in the medical schools in Moscow, the Bobigy Faculty of
Medicine at the University of Paris Nord, and various Egyptian and Greek
medical schools. It is used worldwide by natural medicine practitioners
and we have even more extensive scientific resources for the ever
continuing corroboration of our findings.
