History of Chiropractic 1

Question 1

Who was the ‘Discoverer of Chiropractic?’

Answer 1

D.D Palmer

Question 2

In what year was D.D Palmer born?

Answer 2

1845

Question 3

What was the name of the person that D.D Palmer performed an adjustment on, thus resulting in the patients restored hearing?

Answer 3

Harvey Lillard

Question 4

What year was Chiropractic born?

Answer 4

1895

Question 5

Before finding Chiropractic, what professions did D.D Palmer have?

Answer 5

Schoolteacher, apiarist, magnetic healer

Question 6

When did D.D Palmer die?

Answer 6

20th Oct. 1913

Question 7

When did he open his school?

Answer 7

He founded Palmer School and Cure (now Palmer College of Chiropractic) in Davenport in 1897

Question 8

When was the first Chiropractic adjustment?

Answer 8

First Chiropractic adjustment = 18th Sept. 1895, in Davenport, Iowa

Question 9

Who were D.D Palmers influences?

Answer 9

Franz Mesmer: Used animal magnetism – ‘cooling off’ local inflammation using excess personal VITAL magnetism
Mary Baker Eddy: A Christian Scientist
B A McFadden: Had knowledge of physical culture

Question 10

What is the chiropractic subluxation theory?

Answer 10

“a misalignment of one of the vertebrae, causes pressure on nerves exiting around the vertebrae, causing disease.” (Vernon 2010)

Question 11

What is the medical meaning of subluxation?

Answer 11

Partial Dislocation of a joint

Question 12

What was the belief systems in the 1800’s?

Answer 12

Spiritualism
Medicine
Christian Science
Metaphysics
Magnetic healing
Discovery
Specificity
Alternative medicine
Government/ public belief

Question 13

What are the four humours?

Answer 13

Yellow Bile - Choleric
Black Bile -Melancholic
Blood -Sanguine
Phlegm -Phlegmatic

Question 14

What is heroic medicine?

Answer 14

Shock the body back to health after an illness caused by a humoral imbalance through bloodletting, purging and sweating

Question 15

Explain the main points of heroic medicine and how it would be done?

Answer 15

Bleeding: venesection, scarification, cupping
Blistering: create blisters and drain them
Purging: Calomel to purge the system

Question 16

Who founded Homeopathy?

Answer 16

Samuel Hahnemann - 1796, but didnt reach america until 1825

Question 17

What was the basis of Homeopathy?

Answer 17

Nutrition, exercise, minimal medicine and human relationships
‘The Human body, if given a bit of help, can heal itself’

Question 18

Who founded Osteopathy?

Answer 18

Andrew Taylor Still

Question 19

What were the similarities of Osteopathy and Chiropractic in the late 1800’s?

Answer 19

Both practiced magnetic healing
Both wrote of metaphysical and Spiritual healing:
Still believed the body was a machine run by unseen forces and Palmer stated that innate intelligence governed healing