Aside from these Historical references there are varied mentions of Eye condition and human physiology by such physicians as Philippus Meyens -1670 (Chiromatica Medica) and Christian Haertels -1786 (De Oculo et Signo) – (the Eye and its various signs),  but nothing definite until the later years of the 1900’s in the form of a Hungarian Physician ‘Ignatz Von Peczely’

The famous (somewhat apocryphal) story of this young physician trying to free a trapped Owl from his own garden seems to have perpetuated from each successive generation of Iridology schools to the next. The story tells of how in freeing the bird from its entrapment he himself (Peczely) inadvertently broke the animal’s leg. He then took it upon himself to heal the sick animal and nurse it back to health and in doing so noticed a dark lesion had formed in the owl’s iris.

This area was catalogued and observed as the bird returned to health. As it did so it was then noticed that the lesion began to slowly knit and repair its self much like the broken bone in the Owls leg.