Talk:History of chiropractic

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moved to History of chiropractic. Favonian (talk) 21:50, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Chiropractic history → History of chiropractic – I can't remember ever before seeing a page entitled "____ history" — they're always "History of _____". I see no reason for this page to be different. History of chiropractic is a redirect to this page with no history except its creation, so it could be moved by anyone, but this is a significant enough article that I don't want to move without discussion. Nyttend (talk) 21:21, 21 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Support. There should be a consistent way to name such articles. The best model is exemplified already in History of medicine, History of chemistry, and the like. It should be followed here. N oetica Tea? 22:46, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Strong support — The rationale provided by Nyttend is unassailable, and this proposed change should be treated as uncontroversial. Senator2029 &#124; talk &#124; contribs 20:18, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Support. No big deal, but no reason this article shouldn't be consistent with other similar articles. Jenks24 (talk) 03:14, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Palmer Death
I propose eliminating the Palmer death section based on general puffery and lack of context within the article. Please discuss. DVMt (talk) 08:27, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Chiro vs. Osteo
I propose removing the comparisons in the lead paragraph and in the subsection referring to a contrast between chiropractic and osteopathy being chiro believes spinal manipulation is for the sake of the nervous system and osteo for the circulatory system: 1. The cited source does not support or even mention this. 2. This is an inaccurate characterization of osteopathy - its founder, A.T. Still gave equal importance to the role of nerves, fascia, arterial flow, and venous return in contributing to the body's function. Additionally, spinal manipulation was only one of several manual approaches to address impaired health. Part of the osteopathic claim of "bastardization" at the time had to do with this perceived oversimplification of osteopathic theory and practice in chiropractic (and perhaps why D.D. Palmer in the cited source characterizes osteo as being "too cumbersome"?). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.220.116.3 (talk) 08:44, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Sourced text deleted
Sourced text got deleted. Per WP:V not truth is the c/e. QuackGuru ( talk ) 18:47, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Medicine vs chiropractic
Under this section the word 'he' is used especially in the later sentences with no reference to which 'he' Langworthy or Palmer, can someone with more knowledge of the subject correct this section with the appropriate names? Many thanks!

......He was arrested twice more by 1906, and although he contended that he was not practicing medicine, he was convicted for professing he could cure disease without a license in medicine or osteopathy. Dr Solon Langworthy, who continued to mix chiropractic at the ASC&NC, took a different route for chiropractic. [He] improved classrooms and provided a curriculum of study instead of the single course. [He] narrowed the scope of chiropractic to the treatment of the spine and nervous system, leaving blood work to the osteopath, and began to refer to the brain as the "life force". [He] was the first to use the word subluxation to describe the misalignment that narrowed the "spinal windows" (or intervertebral foramina) and interrupted the nerve energy. In 1906, Langworthy published the first book on chiropractic, Modernized Chiropractic" — "Special Philosophy — A Distinct System. [He] brought chiropractic into the scientific arena...... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.98.120.58 (talk) 23:28, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

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Link is dead if someone wants to post a new source to that article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.64.176.35 (talk) 17:03, 26 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I've updated it to researchgate where one of the authors posted the paper. ThaiWood (talk) 18:10, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

"I can hear that rackets on the streets."
This quote is attributed to Palmer, D.D. (1910) The Science, Art and Philosophy of Chiropractic Portland, Oregon: Portland Printing House Compan, but looking through a scanned copy, I can find no such quote. Granted the source is something like 1000 pages, but it also seems like every search result for this quote is based off of this wikipedia article.

Page 18 in the book seems to recount the story and provides some similar wording:

"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"

But I can't find any evidence for Lilard having said anything similar. ThaiWood (talk) 17:45, 26 June 2024 (UTC)