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A Uniform Division and Classification of Disease
"Blond Symbol of Aristocracy" "In the royal family Mr. Ellis found an early tendency toward fairness, but by later Tudor times there was a tendency toward darkness, while the light mixed type of eye, usually blue-yellow, has remained persistent. It is from the fair elements he observes that the aristocracy is chiefly recruited, though in the course of a few generations there is a tendency to brunetteness in these families, probably from the tendency of the blond men to marry brunette women.'' Major Woodruff Becomes "Mixed" After thus acknowledging the physical and mental superiority of the blue eyed type, Major Woodruff becomes twisted in his deductions through not understanding how color of the eyes is influenced by mongrelization and by unnatural habits of living. He says "Blonds, despite their prowess, are a vanishing race," and he finds that Great, Britain's brunettes are absorbing the blonds, that the blond type is less resistant and that there are fewer instances of long life among the blonds; also "they form an undue proportion of England's invalids and are prone to certain mortal maladies which are withstood by the brunettes." He reasons from the increase of brunettes in the cities that they are the stronger and more resistant type. If he understood the laws as revealed by the diagnosis from the eye he would perceive that exactly the reverse is true, that the increase in the number of brunettes is due to the degenerating influences of city life, that the rapidly increasing numbers of brunettes are blue eyed people, or their descendants, turned dark eyed under the weakening, degenerating influences of mongrelization, food poisoning foul air, confinement, over-strain, over-stimulation, luetic diseases, drugging, vaccination, lymph, serum, and antitoxin therapy. He would also understand that the preponderance of blue eyed invalids is due to the fact that they are the more resistant race and that they will survive adverse influences, such as dissipation, surgical operations, drug poisoning, etc., under which brown eyed people quickly succumb and die. One reason why brown eyed persons sometimes outlive the blue eyed is because the latter are apt to squander their exuberant vital resources in dissipation and overwork. They feel and act as though there were no limit to their powers of endurance, while the brown eyed folk are usually well aware of their limited resistance and weakened powers of endurance and therefore instinctively husband their strength. This explains why blond athletes and prize-fighters frequently fall victims to wasting diseases early in life. A recent example of this self destruction of a splendid Saxon specimen through overwork and dissipation is our genial, virile Jack London. In many of his novels he rhapsodizes over the excellent qualities of the blond superman. He was very well aware of the superiority of the type and portrays it in many of his characters. We constantly find in our practice that as a rule the recuperative powers of the blond are much better than those of the brunette. The great men of history of Aryan descent, almost without exception, no matter to what nation they belong, have been and are now blue eyed. Statistics are being collected which confirm this fact in a surprising manner. As before stated, Columbus was a blue eyed Italian and Napoleon was a blue eyed Corsican. Look at a map of Europe and note how, traveling from north to south, the size and strength of body as well as physical and mental vigor, positiveness and aggressiveness decrease with the increase of color in the eye. Compare, for instance, the vigorous, blue eyed Canadian and North American with the languid Southerner, the brown eyed, lazy Mexican; and still lower in the scale, the dark eyed natives of the Brazilian tropics. From this evidence, is it not clear that the blue eyed type of humanity, as a rule racially as well as individually, represents physically and mentally the vigorous, energetic, aggressive, sanguine, positive qualities of human nature, while the brown eyed exhibit in a marked degree the weaker, negative, subjective, sensitive and emotional characteristics ? However, do not despair, ye brown eyed folk, for in spite of the color of your eyes you may be better off physically and mentally than a great many of your blue eyed brothers and sisters, for as previously stated, three factors in the diagnosis from the eye determine health, strength and expectancy of life,--viz., color, density and hereditary lesions. An individual possessing dark eyes of good density may have much better chances for health and long life than a blue eyed person with an iris of poor density and with many hereditary and acquired lesions and signs of suppression and drug poisoning. The Influence of Disease on the Color of the Iris Another factor aside from race heredity which affects the color of the iris and which changes it from the natural light brown or blue color to darker tints and pigments, lies in encumbrance of the system with waste matter, disease taints and drug poisons and with gradual atrophy and death of tissues. The nature of these changes I have briefly explained in my comparison of inflammation to fermentation, in "The Making of a Chronic," and in other places. As we have learned, the normal iris color of individuals of pure Germanic, Anglo-Saxon, Keltic or Scandinavian origin is a light blue without any signs, marks or discolorations whatsoever. Darkening of the iris color into blackish blue, ashy grey or brown among descendants of these Aryan subraces is always an indication of impure blood due either to an admixture of blood of darker races or to unnatural habits of living and the unnatural treatment of disease. If children of Indo-Caucasian or Keltic origin are born dark eyed, with eyes of blackish blue or brown color, we find that under the influence of natural management as to feeding, bathing, breathing and under the natural treatment, of diseases, the color of the iris grows lighter and gradually returns to the original sky blue. On the other hand, we find that under influence of unnatural management, after suppression of acute diseases (Nature's healing, cleansing efforts), and after vaccination, drug poisoning, antitoxin, lymph and serum treatment, the iris of the infant becomes darker and exhibits various signs, discolorations and pigmentations which we shall consider in detail later on. To recapitulate,--darkening of the iris never takes place simultaneously with improvement, but always with deterioration of health. Lightening and clearing up of the iris color never takes place simultaneously with deterioration but always with improvement in health. In seventeen years' practice and close daily observation of changes in the iris, I have never seen an exception to this rule. This is one of the revelations of Nature's records in the iris which make Iridology an exact science. The changes in color are the best indication whether or not the methods of living and of treating diseases are in harmony with Nature's laws. If acute elimination takes place through certain parts and organs of the body, the corresponding areas in the iris often show much lighter in color than the remaining parts of the eye, indicating that the eliminating parts and organs have become more alive and active and comparatively purer than the rest of the body. Instances like the following are of common occurrence in our practice. A few years ago we diagnosed in our college class a brown eyed man who had been suffering from childhood with a psoric constitution and from drug poisoning. While the eyes were dark brown, the areas corresponding to the lungs were comparatively blue. I questioned the students about the meaning of this phenomenon, but failing to receive a satisfactory answer I asked the man whether it was not a fact that of late years he had been eliminating from lungs and bronchi a great deal of phlegm and mucus. This he confirmed and told us that his "chronic catarrh" had been a great annoyance to him. He did not understand that this "chronic catarrh" had probably saved his life, and that, thanks to this continuous elimination, the lungs had purified themselves more thoroughly than had other organs of the body, He was physically based. His weakest organs were the kidneys and intermediate organs, the lungs. Therefore the lungs, sustained by strong digestive organs, had saved the kidneys from destruction. This is explained more fully in "Basic Diagnosis", pages 296, 297. Luckily for him he had been under homeopathic treatment, which did not interfere with this form of elimination. Under suppressive treatment by means of quinin, opiates, coal tar products, etc., this cleansing process would have been checked and suppressed. Drug poisons would have been added to disease taints and under such unnatural treatment all sorts of complications, or death, would have been the inevitable result. If he had survived, the areas of the lungs instead of being lighter would have been much darker, and would have shown the black signs of chronic catarrh and of loss of substance (caverns in the lungs). Iris Color and Climate The question may be asked at this point, what has climate to do with changes in the color of the eyes and hair? It is quite generally believed that climatic influences have a powerful effect upon racial color, that sunlight and great heat tend to darken eyes and hair. This impression has arisen probably because brunette and dark races and nations predominate in the heated zones. As a matter of fact, however, climatic influences change racial characteristics only temporarily and to a slight degree. The descendants of the blue eyed Dutch retain their blond characteristics to this day in the hot African Veldt. Remnants of Vandal tribes in Northern Africa are still blue eyed. The Jew, after being acclimated for many centuries in northern Russia and Scandinavian countries, is brown eyed and black haired to this day, provided in his veins runs the pure Semitic blood.
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