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How Chiropractic Medicine Started as a Ghost Religion

Behind the Bastards

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Dee Dee Palmer's Story About Chiropractic Medicine

Palmer claimed to have discovered that adjusting the spine properly could fix any health ailment. The new medical science of chiropractic adjustment was born on September 18th 1895. Palmer began teaching his techniques to students around the country he established the Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1897 out of Davenport, Iowa. He started claiming that every human body was filled with enough natural healing power to cure any ailment afflicting it and spinal misalignment was the cause of almost all blockages.

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