Chiropractic's Birthday

It has been 115 years since the first chiropractic patient, Harvey Lillard was adjusted by D.D. Palmer. Below is his written description of the encounter:

"Harvey Lillard a janitor in the Ryan Block, where I had my office, had been so deaf for 17 years that he could not hear the racket of a wagon on the street or the ticking of a watch. I made inquiry as to the cause of his deafness and was informed that when he was exerting himself in a cramped, stooping position, he felt something give way in his back and immediately became deaf. An examination showed a vertebrae racked from its normal position. I reasoned that if that vertebra was replaced, the man's hearing should be restored. With this object in view, a half-hour's talk persuaded Mr. Lillard to allow me to replace it. I racked it into position by using the spinous process as a lever and soon the man could hear as before. There was nothing "accidental" about this, as it was accomplished with an object in view, and the result expected was obtained. There was nothing "crude" about this adjustment; it was specific, so much so that no Chiropractor has equaled it."

Chiropractic is not magic; it is a very calculated approach to health care that examines the body as a network of systems. What D.D. Palmer proved 115 years ago is that there are underlying problems to common symptoms that cannot be ignored or simply treated with a pill.
 

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