The founder of chiropractic
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Put your question to D.D. Palmer, the man who founded chiropractic in 1895. Every answer is grounded in his own published words, with the sources cited.
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“By correcting the skeletal frame the spirit is permitted to assume normal control, and produce normal expression.”
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The Writings
His books, and every issue of his journals we hold. All of it free to read.
The Chiropractor's Adjuster
Text-Book of the Science, Art and Philosophy of Chiropractic
His great book. Nearly a thousand pages on the science, the art and the philosophy he founded: Innate, tone, the vertebral subluxation and the adjustment, in his own words.
The Chiropractor
His lectures from the last years of his life, published by Mrs. D.D. Palmer after his death in 1913. Nerve vibration, tone, the nervous system and the moral and religious duty of a chiropractor.
The Science of Chiropractic
The first book of chiropractic, compiled and published by B.J. Palmer. Ask D.D. searches only the seven articles D.D. later named as his own.
The Moral and Religious Duty of a Chiropractor
His pamphlet asserting chiropractic as a religious duty, written for chiropractors facing arrest under the medical laws. An earlier version of the first chapter of the 1914 book.
The source, in his own words.
D.D. Palmer named Innate, defined tone and gave the profession its science, its art and its philosophy. This is where the next generation of chiropractors comes to find it, at the source.
Portrait: D.D. Palmer, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
