Daniel David Palmer

He might be

... his name is D.D. Palmer, okay? The...

He was the...

And, and he, he's actually, his, his full name is Daniel David Palmer.

But basically, modern chiropractic started in 1895.

So D.D. Palmer moved to Davenport, Iowa, where he actually started to open his practice there.

Now, here's the, the, where it starts to get a little weird because when you look at the history of it, D.D. Palmer initially was what's called a magnetic healer.

Oh.

I think my father, who was a chiropractor, had a patient that ran a transcendental school not far from where we lived.

And as we were talking offline before, chiropractic has a very spiritual metaphysical foundation from the founder, D.D. Palmer.

So my father graduated school in 56 when B.J. Palmer, the guy who opened the school, was still around.

And so my parents were always, you know, open to these kind of things.

They were both raised as Catholics and did not pursue that for us, the kids, but always had a very spiritual foundation in their understanding.

Yes.

They all went to Palmer College of Chiropractic.

Is this like the OG of chiropractic schools?

Literally, and it's a big part of what we're talking about today.

I was not expecting us to go back that far.

1800s, here we come.

We are in Iowa and we are in the office of a magnetic healer named Daniel David Palmer.

Ooh, what does it mean to be a magnetic healer?

People think, well, I think this famous person.

Actually, he's a diminutive person, as he's described in the prophet Daniel.

He's someone that most people don't know, but all of a sudden he'll come on the scene and be world famous.

I think of the president of Ukraine, Zelensky, that he reminds me of that kind of person.

So I was able to get her live dictation.

She writes, I have a pregnant daughter who is experiencing severe sciatica pain.

She and her husband are uncomfortable with chiropractic care, given that the chiropractic function was founded by Daniel Palmer in 1895, who practiced spiritualism.

Do you think that Christians should avoid chiropractic care today? Can you support this position for me, please, with a specific point in scripture? And on another note, this couple has traveled to Georgia to be baptized in the healing water at the North Georgia Revival led by Pastor Todd Smith.

Hop a little bit.

In 1895, Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic adjustment.

Could you imagine being the first patient, though? Who was

that patient? I'd love to know.

What I want to do is take you back to where each one originated from, quite literally, historically, and in their own founders' words, talk about how they originated, and then show you what happened when the founding claims got put in front of randomized controlled trials, for and against with citations that i'll include in the show notes so you can check every claim for yourself the reason i'm doing this is because you deserve the origin stories before you decide whether or not to trust a particular practice so let's get to it chiropractic medicine let's start with that one i mean that one's probably the biggest one out there it's hands down the wildest founding story of the four we're going to talk about today and i say that as someone who did not expect a seance to show up in a medical history segment but Chiropractic medicine was founded in September of 1895 in Davenport, Iowa.

The guy's name was Daniel David Palmer.

Palmer was not a physician.

He had been a grocer in the past.

He'd been a beekeeper.

That's his background.

So grosser, magnetic healer, amongst other things.

This all started from an original case in chiropractic lore where Palmer met a janitor named Harvey Lillard, who Palmer said had been deaf for 17 years.

I, I, I know a bit about him, but tell me more.

Daniel David Palmer, he was a dude in the 1800s who loved all of the, like, 1800s, like, fake science, like something called magnetic healing, stuff that, you know, just wasn't...

Uh, science at the time was crazy to begin with, but then there were even at the time considered pseudoscience.

And I, what I did not know [laughs] until this week was that he received chiropractic from a ghost.

So.

We, uh, DD Palmer said it and we appreciate the opportunity to be useful.

So, uh, and you know, good ideas are great implementations, everything, right? So just thank you guys for the trust and thanks for implementing.

Uh, we love to hear your success stories.

Chiropractic's origins lie in folk medicine of bone setting, as it evolved to incorporate vitalism, spiritual inspiration, and rationalism.

Its founder, D.D. Palmer, called it a science of healing without drugs, and its early philosophy was based on deduction from irrefutable doctrine,

which

helped distinguish chiropractic from medicine.