EYES AS MEDICAL BAROMETER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18446, 6 January 1922, Page 8

EYES AS MEDICAL BAROMETER

It is said that th© eyes are the windows of the soul. But it is a fact that just aa wo can find the state of the weather hv reference to a barometer, so can we tell whether a person is in. good health by examining th© ©yea. This metoed of diagnosing disease from tho eyes is known as the “Ins science,” and, according to Dr Andorshon, of Denmark, is th© only really reliable method by which tho seat ot a disease can be .discovered. The science was discovered by e Hungarian, who, during boyhood, caught an owl which had broken its leg, and noticed that a black spot appeared in a certain part of the iris. Some years later he noticed the same black spot in the iris of a man who had sustained a, broken log. This experience caused him to investigate, and he found that every disease- could be read from a certain portion of the rris. If a disease is cured, white lines will enclose the dark spot that proclaimed the disease. From this the stage of the disease can bo ascertained. If the white lines do not entirely surround the dark spot the disease is not entirely cured. - Drugs are always clearly shown' on tho iris—arsenic by white specks on the outer edge, inorganic iron by brown marks round toe pupil..