About the Owl
Tradition holds that in 1837 a young Ignatz von Peczely of Hungary, a lad of about 10 years of age, captured an owl in the family garden. In an effort to escape from its captor's hand, the owl fractured its leg. Probably because owls have such large wide-open eyes, Von Peczely noticed immediately that a black line had developed in the owl's iris at the six o'clock position at the bottom part of the iris.
Von Peczely remembered this curious development during his medical studies in Germany, and spent many hours observing the eyes of patients, and became well known as the doctor who could diagnose by looking into the eyes. We now know from the iris chart that the six o'clock position at the bottom part of the iris corresponds to the leg.
This relatively recent rediscovery of Iridology in Europe, has led to its current use as a powerful diagnostic tool.
However, Iridology is in fact, a 2000 years old science, possibly even older. It was first mentioned in the Bible, and has also been practiced in some form, by the Chinese, for thousands of years. |
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