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Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: Chips from Sweet Home, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, DD Palmer, Gene Zdrazil DC, Myron Brown DC, Old Dad Chiro, Todd Waters
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
On September 18, 1997, one hundred and two years after D.D. Palmer delivered the profession’s first adjustment, adventuring chiropractic historians, Dr. Myron Brown and Dr. Gene Zdrazil, set a modest stone marker on a piece of land once owned by the founder — a piece of land that Palmer affectionately referred to as “Sweet Home.”
For Brown and Zdrazil, memorializing this historic location of chiropractic was easy. Finding it was hard. Continue reading
Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: A Day and Night With the Spirits, Chips from Sweet Home, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, DD Palmer, JH Mott, Old Dad Chiro, Todd Waters
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
Why was DD Palmer — the founder of chiropractic — writing about ghosts??? And why can we not find these writings today?
In Old Dad Chiro, Palmer’s biographer, Vern Gielow tells us that the Aledo, Illinois Public Library held only the cover to his A Day and Night With the Spirits. Published in 1880, this text revealed the profitable hoax that a JH Mott played on people wishing to reconnect with their deceased loved ones. This 40-page booklet would have been a very limited run and most likely thrown out with yesterday’s news after a single reading — which accounts for why it is so scarce today.
Actual ad for Spirits Book. This ad — aside from Palmer’s biography — is the only physical proof we have now that his Spirit Book ever existed.
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