Iridiagnosis and other diagnostic methods / Henry Lindlahr.

  • Lindlahr, Henry, 1862-1924.
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1922, ©1919
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    science. Foremost among the followers of Yon Peckzely in Europe was the Rev. Niels Liljequist, a Swedish clergy¬ man, who, for many years, has made Iridology his life work. He perfected Peckzely’s chart of the iris and was the first one to describe signs of drug poisoning. He had suffered terribly from most of the symptoms of quinin poisoning (chronic cinchonism) ever since he had taken large quantities of the drug in early life. After he became acquainted with iridiagnosis he discovered the connection between the yellow discoloration in his eyes and the chronic quinin poisoning. This led him to study the rela¬ tionship of other color pigments to various forms of drug poisoning, such as iodism, mercurialism, bromism, arsen¬ ical poisoning, etc. In Germany Dr. Thiel and Pastor Felke made valuable contributions to Iridology, and became famous diagnos¬ ticians and Nature Cure physicians. In this country Henry Lahn, M. D., wrote the first book in the English language on this new and valuable method of diagnosis. Many years of personal acquaintance with this remarkable man and his work impels me to give him ci edit for being the ablest iridiagnostician now living. Anderchou in England published a few years ago a brief summary of the discoveries and teachings of the pioneers of Iridology. The “regular” school of medicine, as a body, has ig¬ nored and will ignore this science, because it discloses the fallacy of their favorite theories and practices, and be¬ cause it reveals unmistakably the direful results of chronic drug poisoning and ill advised operations. Leaving out of consideration everything that is at pres* ent speculative and uncertain, we are justified in making the following statements, subject to the qualifications and limitations before described: (1) The eye is not only, as the ancients said, “the mir