History of Chiro Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
Founder of chiropractic - Answers Who was DD Palmer
September 18, 1895 - Answers When was the first adjustment?
David Danial Palmer - Answers What is DDs name?
Founder of Homeopathy - Answers Who is Samuel Hahnemann?
Physician who popularized heroic med - Answers Who is Benjamin Rush?
Founder of osteopathy (1874) - Answers Who is A.T. Still?
A.T. Still - Answers 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 - Answers What is the difference between regular medicine vs
"irregular medicine?
bad air = source of disease - Answers 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) - Answers What is the humoral theory?
Replaced the "miasma" concept after germs were discovered - Answers What is germ theory?
Only way to keep the body balanced is to purge
Ex: diarrhea, vomiting, bloodletting, and sweating - Answers Purgative methods
Lack of education (no formal training)
Anyone could claim to be a doctor - Answers 1800's med/healthcare was poor because of
Based on balancing humors
The sicker the patient the more intense the treatment
Ex: bloodletting - Answers What is heroic medicine?
Like causes like - Answers Homeopathy
Allows body to heal itself (regularly circulation)
Same way for every patient no matter what the different is - Answers Osteopathy
Canada - Answers DD and TJ came to the US from _______ at the end of the civil war
, Sweet home - Answers DD and TJ bought land in IA. This farm was called
Raised bees and hybridized raspberries - Answers 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 - Answers American Spiritualism
Magnetic healing - Answers DD practiced hypnosis that lead him to
Abba Lord - Answers 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 - Answers Abba Lord
2nd wife of DD, had 4 children (BJ, Mae, Jessie, one died) with DD before she died from
tuberculosis in 1884 - Answers Louvenia Landers
A spiritual entity that DD Palmer claimed to receive the principles of chiropractic from. -
Answers Who was Jim Atkinson?
General store and sold fish - Answers DD sold his shares of sweet home and started a
3rd wife of DD; marriage of convenience (approx. 40 days) - Answers Martha Henning
Having too much or too little "vital fluid" results in disease.
Can be manipulated by genial and long massages with vigorous rubbing - Answers Magnetic
healers thought that
Started using a more targeted approach when touching patients - Answers DD took a different
approach to magnetic healing by
Iola KS - Answers Where did DD get registered as a magnetic healer
Hypnotism - Answers What was mesmerism re-branded as
Patient of DD's who died. He signed off on her death certificate creating problems w/ the Iowa
med board - Answers Who was Olivia Thornton?
deaf janitor that got hearing back after 1st adjustment from DD Palmer in 1895 - Answers Who
was Harvey Lillard?
Founder of chiropractic - Answers Who was DD Palmer
September 18, 1895 - Answers When was the first adjustment?
David Danial Palmer - Answers What is DDs name?
Founder of Homeopathy - Answers Who is Samuel Hahnemann?
Physician who popularized heroic med - Answers Who is Benjamin Rush?
Founder of osteopathy (1874) - Answers Who is A.T. Still?
A.T. Still - Answers 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 - Answers What is the difference between regular medicine vs
"irregular medicine?
bad air = source of disease - Answers 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) - Answers What is the humoral theory?
Replaced the "miasma" concept after germs were discovered - Answers What is germ theory?
Only way to keep the body balanced is to purge
Ex: diarrhea, vomiting, bloodletting, and sweating - Answers Purgative methods
Lack of education (no formal training)
Anyone could claim to be a doctor - Answers 1800's med/healthcare was poor because of
Based on balancing humors
The sicker the patient the more intense the treatment
Ex: bloodletting - Answers What is heroic medicine?
Like causes like - Answers Homeopathy
Allows body to heal itself (regularly circulation)
Same way for every patient no matter what the different is - Answers Osteopathy
Canada - Answers DD and TJ came to the US from _______ at the end of the civil war
, Sweet home - Answers DD and TJ bought land in IA. This farm was called
Raised bees and hybridized raspberries - Answers 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 - Answers American Spiritualism
Magnetic healing - Answers DD practiced hypnosis that lead him to
Abba Lord - Answers 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 - Answers Abba Lord
2nd wife of DD, had 4 children (BJ, Mae, Jessie, one died) with DD before she died from
tuberculosis in 1884 - Answers Louvenia Landers
A spiritual entity that DD Palmer claimed to receive the principles of chiropractic from. -
Answers Who was Jim Atkinson?
General store and sold fish - Answers DD sold his shares of sweet home and started a
3rd wife of DD; marriage of convenience (approx. 40 days) - Answers Martha Henning
Having too much or too little "vital fluid" results in disease.
Can be manipulated by genial and long massages with vigorous rubbing - Answers Magnetic
healers thought that
Started using a more targeted approach when touching patients - Answers DD took a different
approach to magnetic healing by
Iola KS - Answers Where did DD get registered as a magnetic healer
Hypnotism - Answers What was mesmerism re-branded as
Patient of DD's who died. He signed off on her death certificate creating problems w/ the Iowa
med board - Answers Who was Olivia Thornton?
deaf janitor that got hearing back after 1st adjustment from DD Palmer in 1895 - Answers Who
was Harvey Lillard?
