Reason In Madness

I had been searching the web like mad trying to find plans on how to build a foldaway drawing table, as my living space is limited. Nothing came to fruition, so I finally sketched up my own plans. Unfortunately I think I scrapped the plans, but you can pretty much see the construction from the photos. I inset a piece of plexiglass in the centre so that I can use it as a a light table when I place a light beneath. I hope some other people are able to find this on the web and use it as inspiration. It was fun to building and even more fun drawing on it!      

My cousins girl friend is just finishing up a course in this. She said she would read my eyes next time I’m over!

Iridology (also known as iridodiagnosis^[1]) is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents believe that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient’s systemic health. Practitioners match their observations to iris charts which divide the iris into zones corresponding to specific parts of the human body. Iridologists see the eyes as “windows” into the body’s state of health.

Iridologists use the charts to distinguish between healthy systems and organs in the body and those which are overactive, inflamed, or distressed. Iridologists believe this information may be used to demonstrate a patient’s susceptibility towards certain illnesses, to reflect past medical problems, or to predict later consequences of health problems which may be developing.

History

The first explicit description of iridological principles such as homolaterality (without using the word iridology) are found in Chiromatica Medica, a famous work published in 1665 and reprinted in 1670 and 1691 by Philippus Meyeus (Philip Meyen von Coburg).

This is an example of an iridology chart, correlating areas of the left iris, as seen in the mirror, with portions of the left hand side of the body. Changes in color or appearance of the iris are said to indicate changes in the health of the corresponding section of the body.

This is the corresponding chart for the right iris which relates to the right hand side of the body.

The first use of the word Augendiagnostik (“eye diagnosis,” loosely translated as iridology) began with Ignaz von Peczely, a 19th-century Hungarian physician. The most common story is that he got the idea for this diagnostic tool after seeing similar streaks in the eyes of a man he was treating for a broken leg and the eyes of an owl whose leg von Peczely had broken many years before. At the First International Iridological Congress, Ignaz von Peczely’s nephew, August von Peczely, dismissed this myth as apocryphal, and maintained that such claims were irreproducible.

The German contribution in the field of natural healing is due to a minister Pastor Felke, who developed a form of homeopathy for treating specific illnesses and described new iris signs in the early 1900s. However, Pastor Felke was subject to long and bitter litigation. The Felke Institute in Gerlingen, Germany was established as a leading center of iridological research and training.

Iridology became better known in the United States in the 1950s, when Bernard Jensen, an American chiropractor, began giving classes in his own method. This is in direct relationship with P. Johannes Thiel, Eduard Lahn (who became an American under the name of Edward Lane) and J Haskell Kritzer. Jensen insisted on the importance of the body’s exposure to toxins, and the use of natural foods as detoxifiers.

Slatki Snovi – Sweet Dreams

Ljubim – Kiss (often said at the end of a sentences)

Sreco – Love

Moja – My (said last grammatically, ie: “Sreco Moja”)

Ljubavi – My every thing

Ill have to keep up dating this as well going to add a Bosnian translation app to my ipod