Ignatz von Peczely
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We find out from Helen Jankoski in an article from the Bridgeport Post that to look into someone’s eyes can tell us many things. Naturally, when it comes to studying eyes deeply, a Hungarian has to be involved, even if he isn’t talking about romance that most Hungarian songs sing about. This time, the eyes are looked into from a medical standpoint. This method is called iridology, or the science of the iris.
This new method, iridology, was started by Ignatz von Peczely. Circumstances which led up to this research on the iris are quite interesting. In the early 1800’s, this little Hungarian boy liked to climb trees, and mess around with birds’ nests, while gaining experience and knowledge about the world around him. It happened that one day Ignatz caught an owl. With his lack of experience, he broke one of its legs in the process. Therefore, it was up to Peczely to mend the broken leg and take care of the bird.
I am sure that not only curiosity but compassion made the little boy spend his time watching the owl very closely. As the bird screeched and struggled, Peczely might have wanted to see if the owl was crying. Suddenly he noticed a black spot on the bottom of the iris, and this spot developed into a line moving to the center of the eye. This dark line stayed there for many days, but as the bone started to heal, the line became smaller and smaller. By the time the bird’s leg was back to normal, the line in the eye regressed into a tiny little dark spot.
When von Peczely grew up, he became a doctor. Now Doctor Ignatz von Peczely, based on his experience with the owl, watched the eyes of his patients and set up the patterns on statistical observation.
Today, more and more attention is turned towards Peczely’s charts, and doctors, some in our area, use it as an aid in making their diagnosis. There is a separate chart for the right and for the left eye, each is made up into several circles, pies and strips with all sorts of markings: shoulder, neck, thyroid, kidney, bladder, mental ability and anything one could name about one’s body is positioned at certain points of the iris. It even lets a man know where to look if he wants to know the true response of the lady. Well, this might take a little practice, but I am sure the Hungarian men don’t mind taking the trouble.
Dr. Jensen, author of a textbook on iridology, explains the relationship between the iris and the rest of the body in the following way: “Contained within the iris are thousands of nerve filaments. They receive messages from virtually every nerve in the human body, via connections with the optic nerves, optic thalami and spinal cord. Also microscopic muscle fibers and tiny blood vessels in the eye, in cooperation with the nerve filaments, muscle fibers and blood vessels duplicate tissue changes simultaneously with the reflexly-associated organs of the body.”
In short, whatever goes on in your body shows up in the iris of your eyes. This is Claudia Margittay-Balogh, thanking Helen Jankoski for opening our eyes to a prominent Hungarian, and with this I am placing this eye-opening chip into the Great Hungarian Mosaic. |
