The Writings
Everything he published, free.
33 writings of D.D. Palmer, the founder of chiropractic: his books and every issue of his journals we hold. Ask D.D. answers from 813,679 words of them, and only from his own.
His books
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 Chiropractor
His monthly journal from Davenport, Iowa, December 1904 to May 1906, the issues before B.J. took it over.
The Chiropractor, December 1904
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, January 1905
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, February 1905
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, March 1905
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, April 1905
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, May 1905
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, June 1905
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, July 1905
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, August 1905
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, September 1905
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, October 1905
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, November 1905
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, December 1905
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, January 1906
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, February 1906
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, March 1906
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor, April and May 1906
His monthly journal from Davenport, written and edited by him until he left in mid-1906. Letters, testimonials and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
Scans courtesy Palmer College of Chiropractic Archives.
The Chiropractor Adjuster
The journal he edited from Portland, Oregon, 1908 to 1910. Much of it became the 1910 book.
The Chiropractor Adjuster, December 1908
The journal he edited from Portland, Oregon, after the split with B.J. Much of it went into the 1910 book. Letters and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor Adjuster, January 1909
The journal he edited from Portland, Oregon, after the split with B.J. Much of it went into the 1910 book. Letters and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor Adjuster, March 1909
The journal he edited from Portland, Oregon, after the split with B.J. Much of it went into the 1910 book. Letters and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor Adjuster, May 1909
The journal he edited from Portland, Oregon, after the split with B.J. Much of it went into the 1910 book. Letters and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor Adjuster, September 1909
The journal he edited from Portland, Oregon, after the split with B.J. Much of it went into the 1910 book. Letters and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor Adjuster, December 1909
The journal he edited from Portland, Oregon, after the split with B.J. Much of it went into the 1910 book. Letters and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
The Chiropractor Adjuster, February 1910
The journal he edited from Portland, Oregon, after the split with B.J. Much of it went into the 1910 book. Letters and reprints inside it are not his and are never quoted as his.
Scans courtesy Palmer College of Chiropractic Archives.
The Magnetic Cure and The Chiropractic
His earliest papers, 1896 to 1902. Listed to read; their scans run the columns together, so Ask D.D. does not search them.
The Magnetic Cure, January 1896
His newspaper from the magnetic healing years, the season after the first adjustment.
The Chiropractic, January 1897
His paper from the first years of the new name, with the account of Harvey Lillard's restored hearing.
The Chiropractic, 1899
An issue of his paper whose masthead reads Number 26; Palmer's catalogue dates it 1899.
The Chiropractic, 1900
His paper, Number 26.
The Chiropractic, 1902
His paper, Number 29.
Scans courtesy Palmer College of Chiropractic Archives.
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