Talk:Chiropractic history

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[edit] Congratulations to Dematt!

Now you've got an official place to place your whole treasure chest of chiro history. This is going to be a great article. It's a fascinating subject with lots of good sources, both pro and con. Keating's archives can be used extensively. He is one chiropractic historian who has not tried to whitewash things. He has written many articles on chiropractic history, and held many speeches. They can also be referenced and listed in the external links. -- Fyslee 12:42, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

I just wonder if anybody will ever read it;) --Dematt 12:53, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

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This link is unfortunately a commercial one -- Chirofind.com Chiropractic history -- but the links it contains can be listed and used:

  • Historical Aspects - Larry Spicer, DC, Dynamic Chiropractic, July 13, 1998, Volume 16, Issue 15
From that article:
In 1898 D.D. Palmer, founder of chiropractic, was still teaching and practicing according to his original theory of chiropractic. This seminal idea, a transitional concept from the magnetic hypotheses (Palmer, 1896) that had guided his alternative healing practice since 1886, held that disease was due to displacements of anatomic parts, which caused friction, created heat, and thereby produced inflammation (Keating, 1991, 1992; Palmer, 1897a&b). Not until 1903, while teaching and practicing in Santa Barbara, California, would Old Dad Chiro reduce his chiropractic concept to an exclusive concern for neural influences in health and illness (Keating, 1995). The "bone-pinches-nerve" notion was surely part of Palmer's first theory, but only a part, as he made clear in his discussion of the cause and treatment of cancer:
...The cause is an obstruction to the blood circulation and an injury to certain nerves. Show us a case of cancer -- no matter in what portion of the body that cancer may be -- and we will at once show you two injuries which obstruct the blood circulation and injure certain nerves. It is this combination of injured nerves and obstructions which cause cancers.

-- Have fun! -- Fyslee 13:15, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

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