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Kung Fao Document - 2700 BCE. Earliest documentation of manipulations of the human body. Discovered by Junxie Li in 1990. Nei Jing - First complete text of traditional Chinese medicine. Classic Taoism. Mentioned manipulation as part of good health care Yellow Emperor - Huang Di. Founder of Chinese civilization and first emperor of a united China. Hippocrates - Father of Medicine. Wrote three books on bones and joints. "Look well to the spine for the cause of disease." Recognized subluxations (displacements) of the vertebrae. Used several methods to reduce misalignments such as succession. Succession - Form of traction where the patient is suspended upside down and the treater shakes him. Avicenna - Considered the greatest Muslim and medieval philosopher and physician. "Doctor of Doctors." Most famous work was the Canon Medicinae. "Art of practice" described knowledge that can only be learned from practice. Asclepius - Greco-Roman god of medicine. Chiron taught him art of healing. Zeus was afraid that he would render all men immortal, and slew him with a thunderbolt. Galen - Early Roman physician in 130-200 AD. Spoke of diseases of connective tissues. "Prince of physicians." Curing paralysis of the right hand of Eudemus by adjusting the vertebra of the neck. Popularized scoliosis, lordosis, and kyphosis. Wrote di Loci Affectis and cited importance of knowing points of emergence of spinal nerves. Abu al-Qasim - Most influential Arab surgeon to date. Father of modern surgery. Kitab al-Tasrif published in 30 volumes in 1000 CE, then published in three parts after invention of printing (pharmacy in 1471, surgery in 1497, medicine in 1519). Described hemophilia for the first time. Lomi Lomi - Hawaiian massage. Means to rub, press, squeeze, or massage. Holistic healing tradition beyond simple massage Bonesetters of Note - Ortons, Tieszens, Sweet family, John Reese, Herbert Baker, John Atkinson, Robert Hutton, Jimmy Heffernan Friar Thomas Moulton - Of the order of St. Augustine. 1656 - wrote first known book on bonesetting. Sir Herbert Atkinson Barker - British bonesetter. Knighted by king for service to troops in WW1. Coined manipulative surgery Sir James Paget MD - Wrote Cases that Bonesetters Cure for the British medical journal. Paget's disease was named after him. Dr. Andrew Dods MD - Wrote pathological observations on the rotated or contorted spine commonly called lateral curvature 182. Edward Harrison - Doctor who wrote Pathological and Practical observations on spinal disease William John Little - Wrote on spinal weakness and curvatures. Wrote on deformities of human frame Bonesetting - Crude version of manipulation. Techniques were often passed down through families. Wharton Hood - MD and MRCS. Wrote "On Bone setting, so called, and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury." Considered the rejected father of manual medicine. The Sweet Family - Bonesetters from New England that eventually became orthopedists. Manipulated french army officers during the revolution. Job Sweet set Aaron Burr's daughter's dislocated hip Ortons and Tieszens - Bonesetters from South Dakota that eventually became chiropractors Sir Percival Pott - President of British Medical Society in late 1800's. Believed all spinal malformations and problems stemmed from tuberculosis. Declared manipulation of the spine was considered malpractice Sarah Mapp - Uneducated bonesetter from 19th century England. Doctress of Epsom. Irritated her medical competitors with many successful cases. Talents celebrated in a musical comedy Andrew T Still - Founder of osteopathic school in 1874, introduced osteopathy in US. First Chiropractic Adjustment - DD Palmer on Harvey Lillard on September 18th, 1895, on the 4th floor of the Ryan building on the corner of Second and Brady street in Davenport Iowa, on a T4 for deafness Difference between early osteopathy and chiropractic per Morikubo trial - DCs were only interested in the nervous system and specific adjustments, while osteopaths were only interested in the circulation and non specific manipulations PSC founding - January 1897 by DD Palmer First ACA - Founded in 1905 by Solon Langworthy with the goal of gaining licensure for chiropractors. First Chiropractic Textbook - Modernized Chiropractic by Solon Langworthy, Oakley Smith, and Minora Paxson DD Palmer Birth - Pickering, Ontario. March 7 1845 - it was a beautiful Friday, sun shining, birds chirping, ringing in spring DD. Palmer's Textbook - Chiropractic Adjuster (Art, Science, and Philosophy of Chiropractic). Published in 1910. This was all copies of his journal called "The Chiropractic" DD's First Theory - Manipulate any body part to avoid friction () DD's Second Theory - Body was heated by nerves and not blood () DD's Third Theory - Subluxations can be caused by toxins, trauma, or auto-suggestion. Subluxations can happen anywhere but mainly spine and feet () BJ Palmer - DD's Son. Born in What Cheer, Iowa on September 14, 1882. Developer of chiropractic 15th graduate of Palmer Infirmary and Chiropractic. Took over as sole owner of Palmer school in 1906 for $2196.76. Wrote 27 books. Started UCA in 1924. Owned WOC (first radio station west of Mississippi). Hired Ronald Reagan in 1932. Stopped teaching full spine and switched to hole in one adjusting in 1932. Owned first X-ray machine west of Mississippi in 1910