Fund of Chiro DD P ppt

DD Palmer did not steal CHiro from Osteopaths

• DD manipulate any body part to avoid friction and inflammation, and maintain circulation of the blood

• A.T. Still believe that the brain was a Pharmacopeia

• DD said he was not the first person to notice that manipulation and adjustments were beneficial

• Osteopathic uses “long-lever’” moves

A human being is a human machine, and should run smoothly.

DD’s early fliers were intended to attract students and patients.

• Some can do it in a month, or 3 months, but some will not succeed. If you can’t learn to do what Dr Palmer is teaching in 3 months, enter not try…

• Cost $500

Young BJ Palmer: DD’s son, and one of DD’s students at Palmer School of Magnetic Cure

Thomas Storey came up with the Bifid Nose piece in Chiro tables

Early Palmer GraduatesL Thomas H Storey (1901), OB Jones (1900), BJ Palmer (1902), EE Sutton (1901), Oakley Smith (1899), Solon Langworthy (1901)

Diploma Stated: allows to practice and teach Chiropractic. All early students opened their own schools except BJ Palmer.

Before 1900’s, all doctor’s wore all black.

Graduates of 1905 included Barbara Brake and Charles Ray Parker

By 1902 - 11,389 Chiro adjustments according to DD’s writings

1902 DD suddenly leaves Davenport to move to Pasadena,, CA. BJ took over the school

DD was arrested in 1902 in Pasadena when one patient died. All charges were dismissed

DD moved to Santa Barbara in 1903, opened a new school. “Discovered” that “the body is heated by nerves and not by blood”.

• Spine is hot, some parts are hotter, like the Atlanta-Occipital joint. Areas with less nerves are cooler, like the Sacrum.

Minora Paxson is the 6th woman in Chiro. Eventually became the leader for women’s health in Chiro

When DD returned to Davenport, he and BJ agreed on the 2nd theory of Chiro, that the body is “heated by nerves and not by blood”. So Old Dad Chiro was solely interested in Osseous pressure on nerves. Adopted the term “subluxation”

• a return to vitalism

BJ returned Palmer school to financial viability with help from a local businessman, Howard Nutting (Willard Carver’s uncle). Howard was the richest man in Davenport. He would give BJ advice.

• they moved the school

• Got an MD to be a part of it

1903 - Palmer school had competition, especially from Langworthy in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

• Langworthy never got sued because he sated “natured cured the disease”

• Langworthy came up with the first book

Langworthy firsts:

• use of subluxation by Chiro educator

• Reference to IVF

• Reference to brain as the source of nerve forces

• Anatomical description of IV openings

• Chiro reference to erect posture as a factor in abnormal spine mechanics

• Reference to human stature being affected by gravity

• Reference to health and disease ad the supreme act of nerves as opposed to blood

• Reference to subluxation as a fixation and to a field of motion of a vertebra

Langworthy’s school employed Oakley Smith as his Dean and Minor Paxson as chair of Obstetric and Gynecology

First book on Chiro: 1906 “Modernized Chiropractic” by Langworthy, Paxson and Smith

• Dr Oakley Smith was the principal author

Langworthy “discovered” the ligature in 1905, involving connective tissues impinging on nerves

Langworthy founded 1905 first Chiropractic organization, in Minnesota

DD Palmer got Governor Johnson to Veto the bill allowing chiropractic to be licensed

North Dakota first state to allow Chiropractors to hold License 1914

Langworthy started to extend schooling that was 6 months, eventually a year

Langworthy gave no credit to DD, and called him a Naprivate

Dr Howard opened National School in the same building DD adjusted his first patient in Davenport, before moving the school to Chicago

DD was arrested for practicing medicine without a license in 1906. He didn’t have a lawyer, and was sent to jail.

• after 23 days, DD paid his fine, and leading to problems with BJ.

• BJ left adn signed a non-competing disclosed