Diagnosis from the eye, a new art of diagnosing with perfect certainty from the iris of the eye the normal and abnormal conditions of the organism in general and of the different organs in particular; a scientific essay for the public and medical profession

Front matter

the Diagnosis from the eye r'S.SoSi

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Chapter II. Allopathy versus Natural Method of Healing: The Old Ways of Diagnosis

Chapter III. History of the Diagnosis from the Eye Chapter IV. The Teachings of the Diagnosis from the Eye:

1. The Four Tenets ....

2. The Increasing Number of Brown Eyes

3. Unnatural or Acquired Colors ....

A. The Signs of Suppressed Milk Scurf and Scabies

B. Medicine Colors .....

Mercury, Quinine, Antipyrin, Iodine, Arsenic, Phosphorus Strychnine, Lead, Salicylic Acid, Creosote, Turpentine, Gly cerine, Opium, Cocain, Hashish, Potassium bromate.

C. Signs of Vaccinations

D. Signs of Glandular Extracts

E. Signs of Operations

4. The Causes of Disease

5. The Density of the Iris

6. Signs of Defective Organs

A. Signs of Inflammation

B. Catarrhal Defects

C. Loss of Substance; Nerve or Cramp Rings Chapter V. Key to the Diagnosis from the Eye

PACE

Second Part.

The Practice of the Diagnosis from the Eye

Third Part.

The Natural Method of Healing . . . • • .105

General Precepts .....

The Care and Treatment of the Child .

Indispositions ......

Scabies ......

Leukorrhea — Hemmorhoids

Blood Poisoning ....

First Help in Accidents— Burns and Scalds

Sexual Diseases ....

Acute Diseases .....

Chronic Diseases ....

Reports of Nature Cures

Epidemics .....

The Natural Healing-Factors ....

The Fruitarian Diet— The Value of Raw Food

Air and Sun Baths— Cold-Water Treatments

Miscellaneous Applications

Magnetic Healing

General Remarks . . . .

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Corroboration ......

First Part.- Chapter I.

Introduction

EVERYWHERE in the world we perceive a steadily progressing evolution ; it is the common band which ties together the long chain of beings from the lowest to the highest one. This process of evolution we can also observe in the parts and organs composing the body of the different creatures.

The highest of all earthly beings is undoubtedly man, his most developed part the head, enclosing the brain where our spiritual and physical life really takes place, where new thoughts originate and are put into action by means of the nerves and muscles. Freely and loftily the head of man rests on his body, dominating it, looking up to the stars and down to the earth. To retain a man's picture and peculiarity it is sufficient if the hand of the artist gives us the head or the face, or even only the eyes and forehead.

The eyes again, certainly are the highest developed of all organs. From them, like from a fountain of rays, mind and soul send their light in love and despair, pity and prayer ; pure and impure motions of the soul are reflected upon the eyes, intelligible to and impressive on all. We therefore like to look into the eyes of our friends, speak of the evil look (Jettatura of the Italians), feel uneasy by the piercing look of malice, cast down our eyes in consciousness of our guilt.

How unattractive a beautiful face with spiritless eyes appears, and how do even the most unsightly features change as soon as they are enlivened by a spirituous eye !

With a mere glance of the eye a strong will can accomplish much to instigate the masses to good or bad deeds, soften excited hearts, to be effective even there where he cannot reach with his words; did we not feel ourselves how much more effective is a freely delivered speech than one recited from the manuscript or read by ourselves ? In the same way we are affected by the depressing look of despair or the jubilant glance of joy.

That the eye is the immediate tie between the soul and the outer world, that it is "the mirror of the soul", is understood by all. But unfortunately it is almost unknown that it also reflects every single part of the body and that we are able by systematized experiences: the -wonderful science of the diagnosis from the eye, to recognize with absolute clearness the physical and mental condition of man.

First of all, we wish to make a few remarks in regard to the relation of the region of the eyes to the face, and about some commonly used sayings. The narrower and the more covered with hair the eye-brows are, the more brilliant appear the skin of the forehead as well as the white in the eye. The eyebrow ought to bend softly downwards ; if it extends horizontally or even turns off upwards, it gives the face a strange, diabolical expression. If the eyebrows are situated too high, leaving too much space between them and the iris, the face receives a naive and childish appearance. We often hear people speak of large and small eyes, but this distinction is erroneous, because the eyeball as well as the iris are of equal size in all men.

However, we do not see the whole eye before us, only as much as the opened eyelids are leaving free, an oval slit which is on an average about 9-10 mm. high. If this slit opens up to 12-13 mm., the eye attains the agreeable form of an almond and the much-praised ' ' moist lustre," because then we can not only see the iris, but also a strip of white above and below it, while the always moist edges of the lids make an effective frame.

The eyelashes also are of importance, because if they are long, dense, and well situated, they make the white of the eye more brilliant. Another important mark for the expression of the eye is a small lineal furrow on the upper lid ; this furrow is formed by the backward folding of the skin and nearly disappears when the lids are closed. If the bright, somewhat moist edge of the upper lid is a little wider than usual, the eye takes a kind of languishing, visionary expression. The white of the eyeball is also of importance; this white is produced through the cornea which is brilliant white itself, being covered by the conjunctiva which is traversed by a net of capillaries. The original, beautiful, brilliant, pure white is scarcely to be found, because in most individuals the conjunctiva, by constant irritation, attains a dim color turning often into yellow.

The cause of the brilliancy of the eye is the reflex of the light from the conjunctiva and especially from the cornea ; the moister the eye, and the wider the opening of the lids (which, as stated, is generally the case in juvenile age), and the purer the white, the more perfect is the brilliancy.

Incidentally and on account of the request to apply the "diagnosis from the eye" also to animals — the key for them being the same as that for men, a fact which highly increases the value of our art — we wish to mention a scarcely known difference between the eyes of man and those of animals.

The eyes of man alone, in distinction from the rest of beings, have the shape of an almond with two angles on the sides, but all other creatures, including the anthropoid apes, have round eyes. When the latter are in a state of rest, only the iris is visible, while the white of the eye, the sclerotica, is covered.

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CHAPTER II.

Allopathy versus Natural Method of Healing.

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THE OLD WAYS OF DIAGNOSIS.

S in all branches of life, there exists to-day also in that of medical science an increased interest on the part of the public. And rightly so ; for in no other branch ignorance costs so dearly, having often to be paid for with years of disease or premature death.

There are two factions rigidly and implacably opposed to each other. On one side stands allopathy and surgery, trying in vain to restore and preserve the health of the body by the strongest poisons and the extensive application of the knife ; on the other side, homeopathy and the various ways of natural healing, having as leading motto : " By no means injure the body."

The followers of the healing methods according to the laws of nature — or better the natural methods of healing, including homeopathy — have always shown that the degeneration of the human race is largely due to the pernicious influence of allopathy ; that the use of poisons, whatever their names may be and no matter whether they are mineral like mercury, arsenic, iodine, bromine, or vegetable like belladonna or digitalis, or animal like ichthyol, the vaccines (against smallpox, diphtheria, etc.), and the lymphs, will always have the same disastrous effect as the butchering knife of surgery. — But allopathy, being endowed with important privileges by the state, has also an injurious influence in another direction : it is opposed to all real progress, true investigation and enlightenment, and rejects a priori all that does not fit in its system, declaring as " unscientific" every new truth which does not come from one of its own ranks ! Homeopathy, on the contrary, really and earnestly acknowledges and accepts the results of free investigation, and for that reason alone, rightly deserves the name of ' ' science. ' '

Science is a sum of experiences and observations which everbody can make, whether he belongs to the profession or not.

This book deals with a branch of pure and unadulterated knowledge — its task is to demonstrate clearly and irrefutably that allopathy is the greatest enemy of mankind. The very fact that the book by spreading enlightenment is detrimental to allopathy, will make it useful to humanity, to the well and sick alike. It treats of the discovery, that morbid changes going on in the system are making themselves noticeable in flic eye, and the possibility to disclose the inner condition of man by careful observation of his eye, and consequently lo make a diagnosis which is reliable in every respect. This discovery and its perfection as a key for diagnostic purposes is one of the great achievements of the human mind, guiding us in the struggle against the drugging fraternity and turning the difficult vocation of the true physician into one of delight and satisfaction.

The insufficiency of the old ways of diagnosis by ausculting, percussing, palpating, examination of the urine, blood, sputum, etc., is admitted by all.

We will mention here a notice regarding this matter, coming from the allopathic circles of Berlin :

" In Professor Leyden's clinic elaborate experiments have been made to diagnose the first symptoms of consumption, i. e. of an actual lung disease (so far only recognized by percussion), by the Roentgen rays, which would be an immense progress in the diagnosis, as at the present stage of medical science a not too far advanced disease of the lungs could not be recognized, but in most cases has been overlooked."

Although the natural method of healing rejects the complicated diagnosis of allopathy and rightly demands a general treatment of the body, the former, nevertheless, will have the greatest benefit also in diagnostic relation by the " diagnosis from the eye " which, resting on the general treatment of the body, always enables us to- designate not only the immediately affected but also the weakest organs of the body. The diagnosis from the eye throws also light upon some of the most important questions, viz., the connection of later appearing diseases with the original disease, the probable duration of life, the various duration of the same disease with different individuals, etc. Up to the present the followers of the natural method of healing have been getting along by bringing that which was of some value for a diagnosis into a system called ' ' facial diagnosis ' ' ; according to the part of the body where the morbid matter had settled, they spoke of a " morbid encumbrance of the front, side, or back " and thereupon based their conclusions.

Osteopathy, which enables us in certain acute cases to make a most startling diagnosis, does also not quite fulfill what we can justly demand from a popular method of examination, — it is difficult to team, and only few are endowed with the fine, instinctive sense of touch necessary for making an unfailing diagnosis.

Osteopathy and facial diagnosis may be very interesting for the investigator, but they are of little practical value, because both systems do but give a general diagnosis in most cases, making it necessary to question the patient, a drcumstance which always gives a doubtful result, as thus we can ascertain only incidental points ; but we who air questioned by the patient must give him the most precise information, and that is possible only by means of " the diagnosis from the eye."

It liass been said that the eye is the mirror of the soul, and that it discloses the different mental and physical conditions of the body: we generally speak of the " vivid clear eye " of the well man, of the " anguishing, glaring eye" of the consumptive, of the "expressionless eye" in typhoid fever and especially insanity (a contraction of the pupil in regular intervals is noticed during the delirium in typhoid fever), of the " broken eye " of the dead-sick. The enlargement of the pupil indicates the presence of spool-worms ; a small inecpuality of the pupils with the inclination to enlargement is found in those suffering from tuberculosis ; various nervous diseases are disclosed by the decreased mobility of the pupil ; frequent disturbances of the sight are pointing to diseases of the kidneys (diabetes), as does also the falling-out of the eye-lashes. The inwardgrowing of the eye-lashes discloses scrofula, and reddened eyes female diseases; Basedow's disease of the kidneys brings the eyes out of their holes ; a swelling of the eyelids makes us suspect trichinosis, etc., etc.

In a book probably 300 years old I found the following instruction : " Shepherds judge the diseases of their sheep by the lines (falsely called radii solarcs) and other signs of the eye. In man, signs near the iris indicate diseases of the lungs and chest, also cough. If children have sound flesh in the inner angles of the eye, it means health ; if these angles lie deep and are devoid of flesh, it means disease or death. If the white of the eye is turning into blue and is veined, it indicates diseases of the sexual organs,"— and so on in a reallv interesting manner.

CHAPTER III. History of the Diagnosis from the Eye

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Mil' discovery and perfection of our diagnosis from the eye, which is justly called a science, was reserved for the nineteenth century. In the following we shall give a short historic account.

In the year 1880 appeared a work entitled Entdeckungen auf dem Gebiete der Natur- undHeilkunde (Discoveries in the Realms of Nature and Art of Healing) by Ignaz Peczely, a native of Hungary. In his work he expounded the theory, that "azure is the normal color of the eye of the Caucasian race ; that allopathically treated diseases darken the color of the eyes," etc. This important discovery was made by a layman through an insignificant incident, as it often happens. When a boy of eleven years, Peczely wanted to catch an owl in his garden ; the bird in selfdefense clawed the hand of the lad who could fiee himself only by breaking the bird's leg. As the boy and the owl sharply looked into each other's eyes, the former observed in the lower part of the bird's eye the rising of a black stripe. Young Peczely dressed the owl's leg, nursed him and finally gave him his freedom again. The bird, however, stayed in the garden for several years, and Peczely observed later in that part of the eye where the black stripe had risen before, the appearance of white and crooked lines.

Peczely, a good designer, became a technologist, participated in the Hungarian revolt of 1848, was wounded and made a captive. In 1861, as a follower of homeopathy, he treated successfully his dead-sick mother; this case made him famous and soon other patients sought his homeopathic advice. At this time, suddenly recalling the little incident witli the owl, he also made his discovery of the diagnosis from the eye. The throng of patients constantly increased, for the fame of his art of " diagnosing from the eye " spread rapidly over the country. Then the authorities intervened: an allopathic physician, accompanied by two exponents of the '' Christian Law," forbade him, not being a " doctor of medicine," to treat people hereafter. To the physician's reproach: "You are a quack pretending to read the diseases of people from their eyes," Peczely replied ; " Von have suffered from such and such diseases which have been falsely treated." Although greatly surprised, the physician had to admit the correctness of the diagnosis and afterwards- did not speak of fraud any more. To avoid further annoyance, Peczely resolved to acquire the title of " doctor of medicine," and for that purpose — being 36 years of age- -he went to Budapest in 1802 and two years later to Vienna, where he had a good opportunity to enlarge his knowledge of the diagnosis from the eye and to confirm his original discovery, that each operation leaves a sign in the iris, and that all allopathic medicines produce changes in certain parts of the eye. Afterward he returned to Budapest where he established a practice.

The publication of the work mentioned above showed again that only the homeopaths maintain the freedom of investigation, acknowledging truth and merit without envy and reserve, always eager to acquire more knowledge. The important discovery of Peczely was totally ignored by the allopaths, just as upon agreement ; it was made known in Germany by August Zoeppritz who in his Homcopathische Monatsblaetter (published in Stuttgart) advocated the diagnosis from the eye. A German homeopath, Dr. Emil Schlegel of Tuebingen, also advocated the diagnosis from the eye by publishing a book on the subject.

A Swedish homeopath, Nils Liljequist, improved the diagnosis from the eye by exceedingly careful and comprehensive studies. He sets forth in the following statement the cause that gave him the impulse to these investigations :

' ' In my thirteenth or fourteenth year I was vaccinated the second time. Being formerly hale and hearty, I now became sickly ; first the lymph glands of my neck began to swell, then I was taken ill with malaria, vehement cough, influenza, polyps appeared in the nose, terrible pains in the bones of the legs,— and all that in the course of a year after the vaccination. Physicians were consulted for years. They always prescribed iodine to besmear the swollen glands, quinine for malaria, and used the tongs to remove the polyps which, however, reappeared every year. Thus years passed by. In the meantime I noticed how the color of my eyes changed more and more, and when twenty years of age I brought forth my discovery : ' Quinine and iodine change the color of the iris ; formerly I had blue eyes, now they are greenish with red spots in them.' Nevertheless, I continued taking medicine, in spite of the warning of Dr. T. , a homeopath and then a teacher at the Helsingborg gymnasium. He even offered me homeopathic remedies and let me try small granules of sugar. But why didn't I accept his kind offer? I often regretted it, but then my sound judgment was disturbed by a newspaper article which wholly ridiculed homeopathy. I took the same standpoint which the Royal Swedish Board of Medicine still takes in the year 1893 and believed that homeopathic medicine contained nothing but ' sugar, starch, and water. ' Besides I desired to become a physician myself and did not care to promote the ' silly teachings ' of homeopathy. But the longer and the more I suffered, the more vanished my admiration for the sacrificing, philanthropic vocation of the physician, and finally I lost my liking for it altogether.

"When I came to the city of Lund in 1871, I consulted there new physicians, hoping they would prescribe for me some better mixtures ; but I was disappointed. I continually got quinine and iodine with the addition of iron which should help my exhausted stomach. I began to protest, but the physician declared that it would mean my death if I would stop taking quinine. As I did not like to die quite so young, I strictly followed his advice. Sometimes I got up to three grams of quinine per dosis. Thus I spent six of the best years of my life on the sick-bed. Oh ! If I had only conformed myself to suffer from malaria, I should have felt well at least some time in my life, as the fever does not appear daily during the whole year. But on account of the quinine and iodine dosing I had been constantly sick since my seventeenth year ; every day vehement headache, especially in the forenoon, heaviness and dullness above the eyes, ringing in the ears, — all symptoms of quinine poisoning.

' ' Finally in my thirtieth year I arrived at the conviction that there must be other methods to acquire health, and other remedies besides those which I had taken. Professor Jaeger's work Die Neural- Analyse convinced me of the truth and excellence of homeopathy, and in the year 1882 I became my own physician, and I did not get any worse on that account. On the contrary, in spite of having suffered from malaria for seventeen years, and in spite of the immense quantities of quinine and iodine which I had swallowed, I am now at 45 years of age quite a healthy man, full of love and vigor for work.

' ' Some of my readers have certainly encountered similar sad experiences with the allopathic methods of treatment, because we hear the same complaints from different sources. And the Englishman who uttered the famous sentence, ' With 40 years you are either your own physician or a fool,' has probably suffered by the allopathic 'art of healing' just as much as I did. Sometimes, in sleepless nights when I was lying down and brooding over the reason why just I should suffer so much, the only consolation I could find was, that our sufferings should remind us to guard our fellowmen against similar misery, and if they ever loecame afflicted with sickness to help them as much as possible. And for that purpose I have written this book."

In our key to the diagnosis from the eye we hope to have solved and cleared away in a satisfactory manner all indistinctness and uncertainty of the preceding authors and thereby to have perfected the diagnosis from the eye.

Only those who concern themselves with the matter can comprehend what an immense sum of work the investigations for the key represent. Thousands had to be thoroughly examined before but one point could be ascertained with absolute certainty, and although the works of the two investigators mentioned above have brought them many denunciations an<l enmities, the history of civilization has entered their names in the

book of fame with golden letters.

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CHAPTER IV. The Teachings of the Diagnosis from the Eye

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'HE background of the eye has been the subject of ardent investigations by the physicians since the invention of the ophthalmoscope ; but none of the investigators conceived the idea that we could also diagnose by the so strikingly different and easily perceptible colors of the iris the pathological state of the whole organism.

The most important point for us in the diagnosis from the eye is the color of the iris from which we can get at once a reliable picture of the condition of the body, although at first only in general, and our science sets up the Fundamental Doctrine : Azure blue is the normal color of the iris in all nations of the Caucasian race.

1 . THE FOUR TENETS.

From the further enlargement of this principal doctrine, whose value cannot be estimated too highly, the following tenets result :

I. All new-born children of healthy parents have blue eyes.

II. The more the color of the originally blue eye changes, often but partly (for instance, into yellow-brown until completely black): the more the body of the respective individual is encumbered with morbid matter or diseased ; consequently a person can be sick without having pains, etc. , because sickness is not a condition but a process.

III. Persons whose eyes changed in the manner stated above, get lighter and even blue eyes again ; under circumstances the color changes only in certain parts. This change is always effected in the same degree as the morbid matter has been expelled from the body.

IV. Bue-eyed parents who suffered from scabies (itch) often beget brown-eyed children, or at least always children whose iris is completely surrounded by a blackish rim, which the diagnosis from the eye calls " scurf rim."

In explanation of this seeming contradiction it may be said right here : a child begotten of blue-eyed but scabby parents, before father or mother discharged this poison in the form of a skin-disease ("scabies), becomes brown-eyed, while it had surely become blue-eyed after the appearance of sores on the skin of the parents.

The latter tenet has been confirmed in the most evident manner by the following case : A man, 35 years of age, was afflicted with scabies, which was driven back into his body by ointments ; thereupon a sore appeared on the left foot. But wisely this abscess was not suppressed and was running for three years ; a child who was born to him in this time had brown eyes, only that part of the iris which corresponds to the left foot was blue in the left eye.

To the first tenet is to be added, that we divide the eyes according to their color into three classes, viz.: blue eyes, browti eyes, and eyes having several colors or a mixed eofor. The first and second class, which represent the " one-colored " eyes, as the diagnosis from the eye calls them, are again subdivided into the equally light-blue normal or ideal eye which can hardly be found to-day ; the medium-blue eye, and the dark-blue eye. Brown eyes are classified the same way ; it is obvious, however, that the light-color is by far the better one. In the third class, i. e. eyes with a mixed color, we find the iris half-brown, generally round the pupil, while the outer half is blue writh a greenish cast, popularly called " cat eye "; more seldom is the opposite case where the inner half of the iris is blueish-green, wThile the outer half is browm ; but it happens very seldom that one eye is predominantly blue, while the other one is brown in the same degree.

The history of the world teaches us that the blue-eyed men and women are superior to the others in every respect, a fact which is also proven by our observations in family, school and daily life.

Only out of the blue eye the fascinating power of a forceful spirit can speak. Wherever we receive information in regard to the color of the eyes of eminent men, it is described as " brilliant blue."

Only among blue-eyed people we find those vigorous, resistive individuals who excel by the strength and agility of their body in such a degree that the giants of tradition seem to be embodied in them, who surpass in strength the buffalo and in swiftness the gazelle, who show a presence of mind under all circumstances, and wTho do not know nervousness, fear, and fatigue. Blue has been the color of the eyes of the beauties who remained everlastingly young, and that of all long-lived people.

The Roman historians report that the victorious legions could not bear the piercing looks of the blue-eyed Teutons. A few attested feats of physical strength and endurance of blue-eyed people may be mentioned here.

Teutobach, commander-in-chief of the Teutons in their famous fight against the Roman legions, often jumped over six horses standing side by side and was able to throw stones weighing 1000 pounds. Emperor Maximilian, the " last knight," and his juvenile friend Duke Christopher of Bavaria possessed equally gigantic strength. At the royal residence in Munich, in the passage from the chapel to the court fountain, there lies a stone weighing 400 pounds which I hike Christopher has thrown once,

and above the stone, in a height of \l feet, there is a nail with an old memorial slate as a sign of a powerful jump once performed by him

Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, the husband of the beautiful Philippine, was able to break with his fingers two pieces of silver money of the size of a dollar laid on top of each other. Better known than the above-mentioned feats is the fact that the English king Richard Lionheart received his name on account of his immense physical strength as well as of the lion-like look of his eyes by which he amazed the Sarazenes.

In a tournament at Augsburg in the year 1459 Maximilian Walter, a German knight, astonished everybody by his strength. A contemporary historian says: "Two lansquenets had to carry this man's lance into the arena. But he himself carried his heavy lance, like other knights, with one arm during the tournament.

He let one of his pages, fourteen years of age, sit on the outstretched lance and carried him across the courtyard and back again. The cavity on the dart of his lance could hold nearly two quarts of wine.

Louis de Boufleur, called the Strong, who lived in the middle of the fifteeenth century, jumped in full armor upon the back of his horse without using his hands or the stirrup ; he also was such an excellent runner that he surpassed the swiftest Spanish horse on a distance of 200 yards. Leonardo da Vinci, the great artist, the painter of "The Last Supper," broke horseshoes with his well-formed hands ; so did the celebrated actress Gautier who also withstood the herculean field-marshall Maurice of Saxony in a wrestling-match.