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History of Chiro Final Questions with Correct
Answers | Updated (100% Correct Answers)
Founder of chiropractic Answer: Who was DD Palmer
September 18, 1895 Answer: When was the first adjustment?
David Danial Palmer Answer: What is DDs name?
Founder of Homeopathy Answer: Who is Samuel Hahnemann?
Physician who popularized heroic med Answer: Who is Benjamin
Rush?
Founder of osteopathy (1874) Answer: Who is A.T. Still?
A.T. Still Answer: Who served on the state board of medicine and
was an opponent to the practice of chiropractic in his state
Reg: medical doctors (MD)
Irregular: anyone w/o an MD Answer: What is the difference
between regular medicine vs "irregular medicine?
bad air = source of disease Answer: What is miasma?
belief that functioning is related to having too much or too little of
the four key bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile)
Answer: What is the humoral theory?
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Replaced the "miasma" concept after germs were discovered
Answer: What is germ theory?
Only way to keep the body balanced is to purge
Ex: diarrhea, vomiting, bloodletting, and sweating Answer: Purgative
methods
Lack of education (no formal training)
Anyone could claim to be a doctor Answer: 1800's med/healthcare
was poor because of
Based on balancing humors
The sicker the patient the more intense the treatment
Ex: bloodletting Answer: What is heroic medicine?
Like causes like Answer: Homeopathy
Allows body to heal itself (regularly circulation)
Same way for every patient no matter what the different is Answer:
Osteopathy
Canada Answer: DD and TJ came to the US from _______ at the end
of the civil war
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Sweet home Answer: DD and TJ bought land in IA. This farm was
called
Raised bees and hybridized raspberries Answer: At sweet home
what did DD and TJ do?
Fox sisters story traveled across the US and magnetic healing
became wrapped up with this concept Answer: American
Spiritualism
Magnetic healing Answer: DD practiced hypnosis that lead him to
Abba Lord Answer: William Drury told DD about a medium named
DDs 1st wife
Mail in order medium business
Influenced DD's beliefs on spiritualism
Left and never came back Answer: Abba Lord
2nd wife of DD, had 4 children (BJ, Mae, Jessie, one died) with DD
before she died from tuberculosis in 1884 Answer: Louvenia
Landers
A spiritual entity that DD Palmer claimed to receive the principles of
chiropractic from. Answer: Who was Jim Atkinson?
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History of Chiro Final Questions with Correct
Answers | Updated (100% Correct Answers)
Founder of chiropractic Answer: Who was DD Palmer
September 18, 1895 Answer: When was the first adjustment?
David Danial Palmer Answer: What is DDs name?
Founder of Homeopathy Answer: Who is Samuel Hahnemann?
Physician who popularized heroic med Answer: Who is Benjamin
Rush?
Founder of osteopathy (1874) Answer: Who is A.T. Still?
A.T. Still Answer: Who served on the state board of medicine and
was an opponent to the practice of chiropractic in his state
Reg: medical doctors (MD)
Irregular: anyone w/o an MD Answer: What is the difference
between regular medicine vs "irregular medicine?
bad air = source of disease Answer: What is miasma?
belief that functioning is related to having too much or too little of
the four key bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile)
Answer: What is the humoral theory?
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Replaced the "miasma" concept after germs were discovered
Answer: What is germ theory?
Only way to keep the body balanced is to purge
Ex: diarrhea, vomiting, bloodletting, and sweating Answer: Purgative
methods
Lack of education (no formal training)
Anyone could claim to be a doctor Answer: 1800's med/healthcare
was poor because of
Based on balancing humors
The sicker the patient the more intense the treatment
Ex: bloodletting Answer: What is heroic medicine?
Like causes like Answer: Homeopathy
Allows body to heal itself (regularly circulation)
Same way for every patient no matter what the different is Answer:
Osteopathy
Canada Answer: DD and TJ came to the US from _______ at the end
of the civil war
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Sweet home Answer: DD and TJ bought land in IA. This farm was
called
Raised bees and hybridized raspberries Answer: At sweet home
what did DD and TJ do?
Fox sisters story traveled across the US and magnetic healing
became wrapped up with this concept Answer: American
Spiritualism
Magnetic healing Answer: DD practiced hypnosis that lead him to
Abba Lord Answer: William Drury told DD about a medium named
DDs 1st wife
Mail in order medium business
Influenced DD's beliefs on spiritualism
Left and never came back Answer: Abba Lord
2nd wife of DD, had 4 children (BJ, Mae, Jessie, one died) with DD
before she died from tuberculosis in 1884 Answer: Louvenia
Landers
A spiritual entity that DD Palmer claimed to receive the principles of
chiropractic from. Answer: Who was Jim Atkinson?
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