Chronic- Diseases-Their Signs in Iris
The organic form of the disease is due in most cases to disease of the pancreas. The liver is the sugar refinery and sugar storage house of the body. During periods of excessive production and under consumption it stores sugar in the form of glycogen and releases it when needed as fuel material for the production of heat and muscular energy. The sugar liberating activity of the liver is regulated and retarded by certain as yet obscure secretions of the pancreas; in other words, the pancreas in this respect acts as a brake on the liver. If the brake or regulator is out of order the liver issues more sugar than needed. The excess accumulates in the circulation and gives rise to glycosuria or diabetes mellitus.
Abnormal conditions of the pancreas are plainly visible in the iris in a triangular projection from duodenum and cecum. If the organ is normal there is nothing to be seen in the corresponding region of the iris. If it is abnormal we notice a triangular bulge of the intestinal wreath projecting into areas 13 and 14, right eye. The typical appearance of this sign is illustrated in Figs. 13-18-22-24.
In this triangle we find portrayed the various signs of pancreatic diseases. In many cases I have observed the signs of acute or chronic inflammation; in others, the signs of suppressed itch. (Color plate, page 116, fig. c.) In some instances drug poisoning or suppression of psoric skin diseases dated back to early infancy. Frequently such patients strenuously deny having had itchy eruptions or eczemata or having taken the drug shown in the iris, but careful inquiry from relatives or the family physician elicits the fact that the drug had been administered for some infantile ailment, or the skin eruptions had been suppressed during the first years of life. It takes but very little poison to affect the tender organism of an infant. In many instances a few doses may be sufficient to affect an individual for life.
The diagnosis from the iris is especially valuable for detecting diseases of the pancreas. Though frequently diseased, it is hardly ever mentioned in allopathic and osteopathic diagnoses. The pancreas is overlapped by the stomach and intestines, therefore if it gives any subjective symptoms of discomfort or pain, these are usually attributed to affections of the stomach or of the intestines, while the signs in the pancreatic triangle in the iris reveal the true nature of the trouble.
Bright's Disease
Albuminuria as well as diabetes is primarily not a kidney disease. Both ailments may be caused by degenerative changes in the kidneys, the filter organs, resulting in leakage of sugar and albumen from the blood stream. But in the majority of cases the trouble is due to abnormal constitutional conditions. As explained under diabetes these may be functional or organic.
The initial stages of Bright's disease are usually caused by pathogenic obstruction of the capillary circulation and intercellular spaces. This interferes with the osmotic processes of nutrition and drainage. It prevents the consumption of proteid food materials and causes their accumulation in the blood stream, necessitating their discharge through the kidneys.
Pathogenic obstruction is gradually followed by degeneration and decomposition of the proteid constituents of cells and tissues and their absorption by the blood and lymph streams. The destruction of cellular protoplasm is undoubtedly hastened by systemic acids and by drug poisons, and as it proceeds the functional stages of the disease change into the organic or destructive stages involving also the kidneys.
Pathogenic obstruction is indicated in the iris by general darkening of the color, heavy scurf rim, white signs of acute inflammatory processes, darkening of the digestive area, nerve rings, etc. Organic destruction of tissues and organs caused by pathogenic obstruction and by the action of systemic and drug poisons is indicated by the signs of the third and fourth stages of disease.
Fig. 25, p. 226, shows chronic deterioration in both kidneys in a case of albuminuria in the advanced stages.
Diseases of the Sexual Organs
The female sex organs are much more complicated and therefore more prone to disease than the male organs. Most of the ordinary diseases of the female sex organs have been described in Chapter XVII, entitled "Woman's Suffering", in Vol. I of this series. In this chapter I shall confine myself to describing those diseases of the sex organs which are directly or indirectly due to venereal or gonorrheal infection.* (*This subject lias been treated more fully by the author in a booklet entitled "The Black Stork".)
The allopathic school teaches that these diseases are in themselves of a chronic, destructive nature, and that their progress must be stopped as soon as possible by local and constitutional treatment, by means of drugs, cauterizations, surgical operations, etc. These teachings and practices are erroneous and destructive. We have proved in many hundreds of cases that these diseases are, in themselves, of the acute inflammatory type, that when naturally treated they run a normal course through the five stages of inflammation as described in Vol. I, and then leave the system in a cleaner and more normal condition than it was before the infection.
Not a single one of these cases treated by us (before suppression had taken place) during the last seventeen years has exhibited secondary or tertiary symptoms. As I have explained many times, it is the suppression of these diseases during the acute and subacute stages by the allopathic treatment that creates the chronic stages and loads the system with destructive drug poisons which are responsible for the so called tertiary stages of syphilis and the worst kinds of other chronic destructive diseases.
Allopathy looks upon syphilis as more serious in its after effects than gonorrhea. Practical experience teaches us that the reverse is true. The average gonorrheal case exhibits much more painful symptoms and is more dangerous to the neighboring organs, as well as more destructive in its chronic after effects than syphilis. The only reason why syphilis is followed after a lapse of years by locomotor ataxia, paralysis agitans, paresis, and a multitude of other so called tertiary diseases is, that slow acting but powerful, insidious poisons are used for its suppression.
The gonorrheal acute catarrh of the membranous linings of the urethra and the syphilitic ulcer are slightly differing manifestations of the same venereal disease. This was acknowledged by Dr. Frankel, an allopathic specialist and writer on sexual diseases. He wrote: "The nature of the contagious poison is of minor importance. Everything depends on the more or less favorable soil the poison finds for development in the body."
It happens that a gonorrheal infection causes syphilitic symptoms or what is called a mixed infection of both gonorrheal and syphilitic symptoms and vice versa. Nature Cure physicians claim that persons with good skin action (light scurf rim) are more prone to the gonorrheal form of the disease, while those with low vitality, poor skin action and of psoric constitution tend to the syphilitic form of the disease. This I have been able to verify in many instances.
In "The Black Stork" I quote at length from the writings of Dr. Joseph Hermann, who has proved, not only theoretically but by thirty years of actual practice in one of the greatest hospitals for venereal diseases in the world, that neither gonorrhea nor syphilis are constitutional diseases; that they are easily curable in the acute stages by natural methods of living and treatment; and that all chronic and congenital after effects can be wholly avoided.
Fig. 30 illustrates a typical case of gonorrhea suppressed by injections of metallic poisons and internal medication. Area 20, urethra, and area 22, prostate gland, show the signs of subacute and chronic inflammation. As in many other cases of gonorrheal suppression the patient is now suffering from chronic prostatitis, and the urine has to be removed by catheters. His allopathic advisers insisted upon immediate operation. This would have meant greater suffering and the beginning of the end.
Fig. 30
The suppression drove the disease taints and drug poisons into the bladder and kidneys; as a result the urine shows pus and albumen. Ever since the disease entered upon the subacute and chronic stages the patient has been impotent. This is indicated by the chronic sign in area 15, testes. During the subacute stages the right wrist became affected with gonorrheal arthritis; this also was suppressed and left the joint in an ankylosed condition (area 12). It is a peculiarity of gonorrheal arthritis that it affects only one joint at a time. The gonorrheal taint in the system will aggravate any tendency to rheumatism and make it more malignant. This type we call gonorrheal rheumatism.
Suppression of the acute catarrhal elimination from the urethra resulted in chronic catarrh of the nasal passages and the bronchi. This, in turn, was treated and suppressed for years with coal tar poisons. As a result of long continued drug poisoning, especially by salicylates administered for rheumatism and arthritis, the area of stomach and bowels shows chronic catarrhal signs, indicating indigestion, chronic constipation, gas formation and malnutrition. Of special interest in this case is the quinin sign in the brain region especially prominent in area 2, right cerebellum, which is the seat of sex life, the emotional nature, etc. The patient confided to me that from early youth he had suffered with excessive excitation of the sex impulse. Undoubtedly this was caused by quiuin taken in considerable quantities for chills and fever during his sixth and seventh years.
Fig. 31.
Fig. 31 illustrates the right eye of a woman fifty years old, who, at the age of twenty-five, contracted a syphilitic infection from her husband. The doctor who treated her, in order to shield the husband, did not inform her of the true nature of the disease. Not until she studied natural methods of healing and became a drugless healer herself did she find out the true nature of her ailments. When she came to me for treatment she exhibited a hole in the palate as large as a dime, which communicated with the nasal passages. She could not speak, nor could she take solid food because it entered the nasal passages. This lesion did not develop until many years after the syphilitic ulcer had been suppressed with mercury and potassium iodid. The inguinal glands and ovaries had been affected at the time by swellings (bubo) and inflammation. When I examined her, both areas (15, 18) in the iris showed chronic signs and a large iodin spot in the right bladder. The patient informed me that after the suppression of the original acute condition she had lost sexual sensation. The fields of the lower extremities reveal the signs of sub-acute inflammation. This was treated for years as sciatic rheumatism with salicylates and painkillers (narcotics and opiates). Subsequent developments showed that the supposed sciatic rheumatism marked the first stages of locomotor ataxia caused by the action of mercury and potassium iodid on the lower spinal cord. The upper part of the iris shows distinctly the greenish crescent of mercury. Iodin is visible in areas 28, 23, 10. Area 29, neck, shows signs of subacute inflammation due to engorgement and inflammation of the lymphatic glands.
The brain region exhibits acute signs in cerebrum and cerebellum. The accompanying symptoms are frequent headaches and dizziness. The patient under natural treatment experienced great improvement. The hole in the palate healed over perfectly within four months time. Her general condition improved sufficiently within six months that she was able to resume her work as drugless practitioner.
