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Alma C. Arnold (1855 - 1950) was the first chiropractor to practice in New York State.

Biography
The first chiropractor to practice in New York state, she opened a practice in Manhattan in 1902 or 1903. She also ran The Healtharium, a sanitarium in Washington, D.C. Miss Arnold treated many distinguished patients such as members of Congress, a vice president, and Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, whom she reportedly restored to health after suffering a serious accident and being told she would never walk again. Alma wrote one of the first books introducing chiropractic to the general public, The Triangle of Health, first published in 1918. Then in 1911, Dr. Arnold was arrested for practicing medicine without a license and spent two nights in “The Tombs,” the infamous Manhattan Detention Complex. Dr. Alma C. Arnold is said to be able to adjust vertebrae without any pain whatever. It is reported that someone once said, ‘Her adjustments would hardly waken a sleeping child.’”