I want to know the history of Iridology.
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Iridology is the study of the iris to diagnose disease. Iridology is based on the questionable assumption that every organ in the human body has a corresponding location within the iris and that one can determine whether an organ is healthy or diseased by examining the iris rather than the organ itself. The Canadian Institute of Iridology says, "Iridology is one of the fastest growing fields in alternative health care in Canada today."\n\nMedical doctors see the iris as the colored part of the eye that regulates the amount of light entering by a contractile opening in the center, the pupil. The lens brings the light rays to a focus, forming an image on the retina where the light falls on the rods and cones, causing them to stimulate the optic nerve and transmit visual impressions to the brain. Medical doctors also recognize that certain symptoms of nonocular disease can be detected by examining the eye. If a problem is suspected, these doctors then refer their patients to an appropriate specialist for further examination. Ophthalmologists and optometrists can identify nonocular health problems by examining the eye. If a problem is suspected, these doctors then refer their patients to an appropriate specialist for further examination. However, recognizing symptoms of disease by looking in the eyes is not what iridology is about. In fact, when iridologists have been tested to see if they could distinguish healthy from sick people by looking at slides of their eyes, they have failed. In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (1979, vol. 242, 1385-1387), three iridologists incorrectly identified nearly all of the study slides of the irises of 143 healthy and diseased people. “In fact, they often read the irises of the sickest people as being healthy and vice versa. They did not even agree with each other.” Similar results involving five Dutch iridologists were published in the British Medical Journal (1988, vol. 297, 1578-1581) (Lisa Niebergall, M.D.). \n\nIridology goes way beyond the claim that the eyes often provide signs of disease. Iridologists maintain that each organ has a counterpart in the eye and that you can determine the state of the organ's health by looking at a particular section of the eye. This belief did not originate with scientific investigation but with one man's intuition.\n\nIgnatz von Péczely, a 19th-century Hungarian physician invented iridology. He got the idea for this novel diagnostic tool when he saw a a dark streak in the eyes of a man he was treating for a broken leg and it reminded him of a similar dark streak in the eyes of an owl whose leg he had broken years earlier. Von Péczely then went on to document similarities in eye markings and illnesses in his patients. Others completed the map of the eye. A typical map divides the eye into sections, using the image of a clock face as a base. So, for example, if you want to know the condition of a patient's thyroid gland, you need not touch the patient to feel for any enlargement of the gland. Nor do you need to do any tests of the gland itself. All you need to do is look in the iris of the right eye at about 2:30 and the iris of the left eye at about 9:30. Discolorations, flecks, streaks, etc. in those parts of the eyes are all you need concern yourself with, if it is the condition of the thyroid you wish to know. For problems with the vagina or penis, look at 5 o'clock in the right eye. And so on. An iridologist can do an examination with nothing more than an iridology map, a magnifying glass, and a flashlight. \n\nIf von Péczely's reasoning is typical, we can surmise that he and other iridologists deceived themselves by looking for and finding correlations between eye markings and illness (confirmation bias). They were working with vague notions of "markings" and "illness." Diseases may not have been precisely or accurately diagnosed  in many cases. They were able t
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Here are some links that might be helpful:\n\nhttp://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/women_egypt.html\nhttp://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/eyeliner2.html\nhttp://www.levity.com/alchemy/islam23.html\nhttp://www.werner-forman-archive.com/Ancient%20Egypt.htm\nhttp://members.tripod.com/~ancient_egypt/dema.html\n\nBy the way, these were all found from a search for ancient, cosmetics, and egypt on images.google.com. Good luck on your project!
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This article gives a good description of all the parts, their purpose, and some diagrams. That should be great for your report.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye#Anatomy
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in a history text book or look on a website\nhttp://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/ARTH200/artist/guilds.html\nthat is one of the billion websites that you can look on
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go to\n\nhttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mythology/roman_family_tree.html&edu=high
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http://www.biotopics.co.uk/life/7chars.html
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try wikipedia there is some stuff there.
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Check out the Kama Sutra. You can learn some of everything.
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go to this site - nice color picture\n\nhttp://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/aristolochiaserp.html
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Try asking the people who created it.\n\nhttp://www.reis.com/
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This site will give you even more than you need : \nhttp://www.afb.org/braillebug/helen_keller_bio.asp
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http://www.crystalmeth.org/
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I don't know where you can get the story, but it may be affliated with Reiki.  A Reiki practitioner once brought me through it.  It's a form of visual imagery.
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try looking at this website http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Bleach.html it gives you the history  and the raw materials that make it, i hope this helps
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I love it. Have over 20 books on the subject, and still want more! Do you have any good book suggestions ?
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http://www.geocities.com/mbordt/eng-indo.htm
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Google it, you'll get so much info on it.\nbut I prefer to look at encyclopedia such as encarta or wikipedia.