[The use of iridoscopy in prophylactic examinations]

To study the method of iridodiagnosis, clinical and iridoscopic examinations were conducted in 1104 patients and healthy persons, of them 516 men and 588 women, aged from 18 to 65 years. The contingent of the subjects represented 6 groups of patients with the most frequently observed pathology and a control group. The results obtained allow to consider that iridoscopy is indeed a sufficiently informative method for diagnostics of organ pathology without differentiation, in most of cases, between nosologic units, and achieves the highest effect in combination with detailed collected complaints and the anamnesis. The method can be used in prophylactic examinations of big contingents. The attempt to formalize iridoscopic data has shown that it is possible, in principle, to draw up a diagnostic algorithm, to describe it in one of programming languages and to work out an iridodiagnostic complex.