Ignaz von Peczely
Male, Deceased Person
1826 – 1911
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Who was Ignaz von Peczely?
Ignaz von Peczely was a Hungarian physician, who is credited with the invention or re-invention of the pseudoscientific theory of iridology. Von Peczely first thought of iridology when caring for an owl with a broken leg. After noticing a spot in the owl's eye he hypothesized a link between the two and later tested this theory with other animals. Iridology is now widely rejected by evidence-based medicine and regarded as a pseudoscience.
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