title: [From acupuncture to iris diagnosis (author's transl)].
abstract: Scientific medicine is always encircled by a miscellany of medical fantasies, which come and go, and which offer a short-cut to diagnosis and treatment, and (very occasionally) both together. Oculodiagnosis, or Iridodiagnosis, has little place in honset ophthalmology, but still holds its devotees.
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D000529:Complementary Therapies; D006801:Humans; D007498:Iris / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D010279:Parathyroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D010900:Pituitary Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D014603:Uveal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Von der Akupunktur zur Irisdiagnoskik.