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The actual profession of chiropractic as a unmistakable form of health concern dates back to 1895. However, some of the earliest healers in the history of the world understood the relationship between health and the condition of the spine. Hippocrates advised: Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases. Herodotus, a contemporary of Hippocrates, gained fame curing diseases by correcting spinal abnormalities through therapeutic exercises. If the patient was too feeble to exercise, Herodotus would maneuver the patient’s spine. Palmer discovered the specific spinal adjustment. He was also the one to prosper the philosophy of chiropractic which forms the base for the profession. Palmer was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1845, He moved to the United States when he was 20 years old. He spent the years behind the Civil War teaching school, raising bees and selling sweet raspberries in the Iowa and Illinois river towns along the bluffs on either side of the Mississippi River. Became familiar with the work of Paul Caster, a magnetic healer who had some win in Ottumwa. Two years later, he moved to Davenport and opened the Palmer Cure Infirmary. Palmer was working slow in his office when a janitor, Harvey Dillard, began active nearby. He approached the man and tried to strike up a conversation. Patiently, Palmer managed to communicate with the man, and learned that he had normal hearing for most of his life. However, he had been over in a cramped, stooping position, and felt something pop in his back. He ran his hand carefully down Dillard’s spine and felt one of the vertebra was not in its normal position. I reasoned that if that vertebra was replaced, the man’s hearing should be restored, he wrote in his notes afterwards. Palmer found each of these conditions responded well to the adjustments which he was calling hand treatments. He renamed his clinic the Palmer School Infirmary of Chiropractic. Although he never used drugs, under Palmer’s concern fevers broke, pain ended, infections healed, vision improved, stomach disorders disappeared, and of course, hearing returned. He realized spinal adjustments to right vertebral misalignment, or subluxations, were eliminating the nerve interference causing the patients’ complaints. At first, even though it proved to be a thriving way of healing the body, chiropractic adjustments were not readily accepted. Graduated from the Palmer school started by D.D. and earlier lengthy with his wife and fellow graduate Mabel was helping patients and taking on more and more responsibility for the school and the clinic. He also was instrumental in getting chiropractic recognized as a licensed profession. Although the profession has advanced tremendously since the days of D.D.