The father of North American Iridology
Dr. Bernard Jensen, DC 1908-2001 (America) - Learned from the teachings of Ed Lane and Henry Lindlahr. He started in Chiropractic in 1929 and was still writing books from his wheelchair up until a month before his death. He wrote many books on colon cleansing, nutrition and Iridology. In all, he authored more than fifty books. He taught more people Iridology over the last 70 years than many of his predecessors combined. He was one of the pioneers in using color iris photography.
During the early 1900’s we had poor communication with Germany due to two world wars, so new information stopped coming over to the U.S. When a chiropractor named Bernard Jensen began learning Iridology, he learned from the teachings of Lane, Lindlahr and Kritzer. Color photography was not used in Iridology until the 1950’s, so most of the pictures in early textbooks were paintings or drawings. Dr. Jensen is the man who kept the candle burning for Iridology without the aid of new research findings from Europe. He is known as the Father of American Iridology and rightly so. He is also responsible for keeping the candle burning for Natural Healing, Nutrition and Chiropractic. As of this year(2002), he has been writing and studying Iridology for over 70 years. He accomplished this doing countless case studies and taking many photographs. His work has been so valuable to the science of Iridology. His studies were done without many of the tools of modern research. Meanwhile, over in Europe, Josef Deck, Theodore Kriege, Rudolph Schnabel and Josef Angerer of Germany were able to work with universities, hospitals, autopsies and x-rays to verify their iris findings. They had many more resources at their disposal, so it really magnifies how much Dr. Jensen accomplished with what he had.