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Filed under: animal chiropractic, Chiro-Picker | Tags: animal adjusting, animal chiropractic, bird, Chiro-Picker, Chiropractic Philosophy, owl, Todd Waters
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
Ok, get this… TRUE STORY.
“The picker in me told me to turn my car around and go retrieve the body.”
Let me explain…
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.
I set out on a hunt to find a copy of it and to find out why DD was writing about ghosts. Continue reading
Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: antique chiropractic adjusting table, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, Douglas Moody DC, Percuss-O-Meter, Todd Waters
Antique Collector, Todd Waters, is “The Chiro-Picker”
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
Before I became interested in collecting chiropractic antiques, I frequented garage sales and estate sales picking up anything that caught my eye — never really giving the process much thought. Now, I know that BJ Palmer would have said that Innate was telling me what items to choose and which to pass by.
On my latest venture, Innate told me to “keep looking… there is more to be found… keep looking.”
It was an estate sale, and I went straight for the basement.
I like basements because they contain a grab bag of unusual odds and ends that have been tucked away for years. The ironic thing is that this basement was practically in my own backyard, just minutes from my home.
And there it was, right before me… Continue reading
Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, Davenport Iowa, LCW, League of Chiropractic Women, Mabel Palmer, Palmer School of Chiropractic, Patty Ribley DC, PSC, Quota Club International, Todd Waters
Antique Collector, Todd Waters, is “The Chiro-Picker”
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
Mabel Palmer. She’s known as “The First Lady of Chiropractic,” but do we really know that much about her???
Yes, she was wife to BJ Palmer, the developer of chiropractic.- Yes, she wrote Green book Volume 9 – Anatomy and taught the course at the Palmer School of Chiropractic (PSC).
- And yes, some of us know she wrote Stepping Stones a book of her world travels with BJ and their son David.
Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: BJ Palmer, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, E. A. Thompson DC, Palmer School of Chiropractic, radiograph, roentgenology, spinograph, spinography, Todd Waters, x-ray
Antique Collector, Todd Waters, is “The Chiro-Picker”
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
Today I hold in my hands something very special to Chiropractic’s history!
…not to mention, very fragile.
My latest Chiro-pick happens to be an original, glass “spinograph” plate from 1920.
There are many things that make this early X-ray very cool. For one thing, it came inside an envelope that stated “Palmer School of Chiropractic 1920” — meaning that this image was made only ten years after PSC introduced X-rays to Chiropractic!
The Instructor’s name on the spinograph is E.A. Thompson — the same Thompson who wrote Green Book vol 10, CHIROPRACTIC SPINOLOGY.
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