About Eyes.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 23 October 1914, Page 2

About Eyes.

M. Boucheriy^ 4« ; Graivival, a French writer, has published a study of" the appearances of inscriptions on the iris of the eye. "" The " Cologne Gazette" gives the following extracts :— •..■ ■

Dr. Borelli produces, on the evidence of a physician of Montpellier named Foririlus," the case of -ar young man who the iris of .his left eye • ;;an "inscription in

yery legible Roihaft-J.ch^r'a^ersi;^' "I.oue soit Dieu" (God be praised!) "Another "case -is -that- of _~. J,osephiße. : Louis., r TMs .young girl, was born in Paris, in 18^5. As she-.fcainefbf

poor parents, they accepted "the" offer '" of ' "a ' * sho'Wmati'r-:and:-let -her-.ber^-exf... hibited as a curiosity, first , ,in France, afterwards in .Ghent,: and finally in England. On the iris of .one eye was to be seen the" word ; '^Napoleon;' ' S:^;oii-■" ttie^ cfther :^#Enfe; peror." Well-known doctors, lloguetta/> Giraldes, Cofnaz i; and'Wjlde/ examined tlie) girl,'; and ; ; ;they—last*., named' reported as follo.ws :—"Aifew year's ago' ■''I^l?(?aT(r >;SP-'a:!^i;"-'ChiMivoa-.-:| the retina of whose eye the words ■ ' iNa'poieoii 'Eriipefcur ] w'erej .^yrjitterii This phenomenon might have been caused by an unusual arrangement of the cavities, fibrils; and streaWs which are ■:■ characteristic -el emends, of the surface of. the eye,. I pos-

sess," added the :- Writer, ? wlio'• Uva s ■ at that time a .physician in Dublin,, "very good engraving, of. Josephine Louis's face. On the lower' 'half of the right iris = are marks : which . resiimble the letters forming . ,the r word ' empereur,' and the word"l'''Na'"poleori ' occupies just about the same position on the left* retina."

In the eighteenth century the celebrated,. eye_.specialist Jacques Daniel had informed scientific circles that in the eye of a peasant woman living- in the-neighboiirhoojcL of Rouen he had detected marks which. resembled the Latin words "Post Mortem. '*■ Finally, Dr. Tenon, whom no one would think of charging with ,a-,.v desire to mystify the credulous,, writes concerning a case which singularly resembles that... of oJ osephi*iej;tiouis,:—^©hi/the bluW/retina are to be seen white stars) some having the shape of numerals, while "au'pthelr be described as.,4i^vingg a jtes|mblance to a capital T." It should be added that Tenon had a copy of this reniark*tM&' f •