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numerous contributions by others.
4.8 Iridology
This is postulated as a means of determining general health by variations
in the iris pigment and structure
Some papers and references (contributed by Roberty Sekuler from
Sekuler R. and Blake R., "Instructors Manual to accompany Perception",
McGraw-Hill, Third Edition, 1994, pp4-5) which tested and debunked
iridology include:
A Simon, DM Worthen and JA Mitas, An evaluation of iridology, Journal of
the American Medican Association, 1979, 242, 1385-1389.
P Knipschild, Looking for gall bladder disease in the patient's iris.
British Medical Journal 1988, 297, 1578-1581. In this paper five
iridologists were asked to judge stereo color slides of the right eyes
of various people for signs of gall bladder disease. According to
iridology texts, gall bladder is projected in the lower lateral part
of the right eye's iris. Further, gall stones are supposed to induce
small, dark spots in that part of the right iris, while inflammation
of the gall bladder is said to induce white line there. Among the slides
that were to be judged for telltale signs of gall bladder disease
were slides of the right eyes of patients who were to have their gall
bladders removed the next day. The slide set also contained slides of
the right eye of age- and gender-matched controls, presumably free of
gall bladder disease. Now the results: the five trained iridologists did
really well in spotting gall bladder disease in the eyes of patients who
actually had g.b. disease. They judged 56% of the patients' slides
as showing evidence of gall bladder disease. Unfortunately, they gave
just about the same percentage of FALSE positive --identifying people
as having g.b. disease who actually did not. Too bad that the experiment
included those pesky control measurements!!!
But those interested in pursuing it further there are locations of
Iridologists on the WWW -
http://www.itlnet.com/natural
http://www.sasknet.com/~bulmj/
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