Daniel David Palmer

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Daniel David Palmer , also DD Palmer (born March 7, 1845 in Pickering , Ontario , † October 20, 1913 in Los Angeles , California ), was the founder of chiropractic .

Life

Daniel David Palmer.

Daniel David Palmer was born in Pickering, near Toronto , Canada. He moved to the United States at the age of 20. Palmer has held various jobs as a bartender, school teacher, and grocery store owner. He was interested in the various health philosophies of his time, such as magnetic healing, osteopathy and spirituality. Palmer practiced the profession of magnetic healer from 1885 in Burlington and Davenport, Iowa.

According to Palmer's own statements, on September 18, 1895, he set up a vortex of the deaf caretaker Harvey Lillard. After this grip on the spine, known as adjustment , he was supposedly able to hear again. However, there is no evidence of this success. Palmer coined the term chiropractic (Greek chiro = hand) and founded a school based on his work in 1897, the Palmer College of Chiropractic (Davenport, Iowa). In 1902 the school had graduated 15 chiropractors. In 1906, under the new Iowa Medical Act, Palmer was prosecuted for practicing an unlicensed medical profession and sentenced to 17 days in prison. Shortly thereafter, he sold the chiropractic school to his son, Bartlett Josua (BJ) Palmer, who ran it until his death in 1961. Soon after the school was sold, DD Palmer moved to the West Coast where he helped start new chiropractic schools (Oklahoma and Oregon). From 1906 to 1910, Palmer published the book Science, Art, and Philosophy of Chiropractic . He died in Los Angeles, California on October 20, 1913.

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SURNAME Palmer, Daniel David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian chiropractor
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Pickering , Ontario , Canada
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1913
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States