Iridiagnosis and other diagnostic methods / Henry Lindlahr.

  • Lindlahr, Henry, 1862-1924.
Date:
1922, ©1919
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    CHAPTER I XRIDOLOGY Correct diagnosis is the first essential to rational treat¬ ment. Every honest physician admits that the old school methods of diagnosis are, to say the least, unsatisfactory and uncertain, especially in ascertaining the underlying causes of disease. Therefore we should welcome any and all methods of diagnosis which throw more light on the causes and the nature of disease conditions in the human organism. Two valuable additions to diagnostic science are now offered to us in Spinal Analysis and in the Diagnosis from the Iris of the Eye. Spinal analysis furnishes valuable information concern¬ ing the connection between disease conditions and mis¬ placements of vertebrae and other bony structures, con¬ tractions or abnormal relaxation of connective tissues, and inflammation of nerves and nerve centers. Men of high standing in the profession have many times admitted the uncertainty of medical diagnosis, but never has more enlightening information on this subject been furnished than by Dr. Cabot of Harvard University, one of the foremost diagnosticians in this country, and author of a standard work on diagnosis. In a recent address before the American Medical Asso¬ ciation he stated that postmortem examinations of one thousand cases which he had conducted disclosed the fact that the antemortem diagnoses were correct in only fifty- three percent of these cases. The following table com-