Daniel David Palmer
Founder of chiropractic
Died when: 68 years 227 days (823 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Daniel David Palmer (March 7, 1845 – October 20, 1913) was a Canadian American chiropractor who was the founder of chiropractic.Palmer was born in Pickering, Ontario, but emigrated to the United States in 1865.
He was also an avid proponent of various other forms of pseudoscientific alternative medicine such as magnetic healing.Palmer opposed anything he thought to be associated with mainstream medicine such as vaccination.
Palmer believed that the human body had an ample supply of natural healing power transmitted through the nervous system.He suggested that if any one organ was affected by an illness, it merely must not be receiving its normal "nerve supply" which he dubbed a "spinal misalignment", or subluxation.
He saw chiropractic as a form of realigning to reestablish the supply.