THE EYE AS A MIRROR OF HEALTH

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It appears that an oval right pupil which points towards the forehead indicated deep depression and melancholia, while an oval shape of the left pupil indicates depression of the severest form and thoughts of suicide. Other anomalies of shape indicate insanity, paranoia, persecution mania and megalomania.

THE eye has always been considered as the mirror of the soul. Everyone is ware that body and soul influence one another and this knowledge is particularly important to the physician. Diagnosis from the eye is a relatively new science. Dr. Rudolf Schnabel, of Munich, had examined diagnostically the of about 80,000 people. He has a large laboratory, filled with all the scientific instruments which enable us to obtain a microscopic view of the eye and all its parts.

By studying the smallest blood vessels, their circulation and the play of the blood corpuscles in the eye and by studying the play of the pupils and before all the pigments of the iritis, the experts can obtain invaluable facts relating to the health of the person examined. With the help of scientific eye diagnosis one can recognize the disposition towards certain diseases, particularly cancer and tuberculosis, long before these horrible inflictions have produced organic changes in stomach, lungs, or elsewhere.

Dr. Schnabels observations regarding the pupils are very remarkable. Using a mass of evidence, he has proved that an oval pupil indicates disposition to cerebral haemorrhage, to a stroke. The direction of the oval indicates exactly which parts of the body are primarily threatened by paralysis. Other abnormalities of the normally round pupil indicate nerve disturbances of various kinds, and it makes a great difference whether these anomalies occur in the left eye or in the right.

It appears that an oval right pupil which points towards the forehead indicated deep depression and melancholia, while an oval shape of the left pupil indicates depression of the severest form and thoughts of suicide. Other anomalies of shape indicate insanity, paranoia, persecution mania and megalomania.

Guided by the appearance of the eye of a young lady belonging to the best society, the parents were warned that the young lady was undoubtedly contemplating suicide and that she should be kept under the most careful observation. The mother smilingly replied that her daughter had not the slightest reason for suicide, that she was happiness personified.

Six weeks later she was found dead in bed after an evening during which she had been noisily happy. Study of the eye caused the warning that a boy of 15, whose father had committed suicide, had a tendency towards melancholia. He also ended his life by his own hand.

The iris also is an important indicator of health. The changes which take place in the colour of the iris and in the texture of the iris tissue allow us to make important conclusions relating to the vitality of the body, its constitution, and its tendency towards diseases of every kind. Having given some time, thought and study to iris diagnosis, I consider this part of eye diagnosis particularly valuable. For us doctors it is most important to understand as early as possible the constitution of those who come to consult us and tendencies towards disease. It is better to prevent diseases than to cure them. among us Germans iris diagnosis is practised almost exclusively by laymen.

The majority of doctors refuse to study the iris science, although by means of it we can prevent threatening diseases which are apparent in the eye. Tuberculosis frequently arises from scrophulosis. There is, therefore, a disposition towards tuberculosis, exactly as there is a disposition towards rheumatism and towards cancer. Such disposition is frequently inherited and it should be combated prophylactic as soon as we see the indications of danger in the iris. Prophylactic based on iris diagnosis is in my opinion thoroughly practicable.

It is inexplicable to me that life insurance companies which are managed by able business men, which use the most scientific methods of diagnosis and which employ a staff of doctors trained at their own expense do not take advantage of the science of iris diagnosis when examining those who wish to be insured.

Besides, we can recognize from the eye whether disease is real or imaginary, whether people who come to us doctors are malingerers or neurasthenics or victims of hysteria. We doctors are apt to say in obscure cases that the conditions is “purely nervous” because we have failed to recognize which organ is responsible for the nerve condition. We might discover the organ at fault by studying the iris.

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