- AA Wernsing was the first to come up with the idea of the atlas being the major in most cases. He invented true plane radiography and spinography. It was his trip to Davenport in the early 1930′s that led BJ and his collaborators to more or less rewrite “The Subluxation Specific, the Adjustment Specific.” Wernsing also developed the first table (vernier table) and method for adjusting C1 from a side-lying position. Without Wernsing, upper cervical chiropractic care would be very, very different.

- Dossa Dixon Evins – inventor of the Neurocalometer. Evins invented the NCM before he even enrolled at Palmer. Otto Schiernbeck later went on to add the graph to the NCM, and they of course called it the Neurocalograph. Evins was also responsible, in my opinion, for the success of WOC because it was his experience in electrical engineering that allowed him to sync up antennas in Davenport and, I think, Des Moines, allowing BJ to broadcast to a much wider area.

- Clay Thompson – a quick search of the Green Books will show anyone who cares that BJ thought Clay and his headpiece were the bee’s knees. Thompson pretty much revolutionized the way an upper cervical adjustment is given and his contribution to that, as well as precision x-ray positioning through his invention of the headclamp system still used today, can’t be underestimated.

- Clear View – Clear View Sanitarium was operating before BJ bought the place in the 1950′s (around ’51 or ’52 I think). Quigley was doing some amazing things out there and BJ bought the place, he was hardly a pioneer in this regard. The 1940′s and 1950′s actually saw a lot of interest in chiropractic and mental health, but it was largely the work of others, really. What happened to CV and its records and research after BJ died is a shame.

- Palmer Standardized Chiropractic Council (or something like that) – was an invitation-only group of upper-cervical adherents who corresponded regularly and met the week before Lyceum every year to refine the upper cervical work. This group spawned folks you’ve heard of like John Grostic, and from there the whole of upper cervical techniques blossomed.

This isn’t to say that BJ wasn’t important. Important is hardly a strong enough word! In my opinion, BJ’s greatest talents were his abilities to recognize greatness in others, delegate, and see the potential of new technologies. He was also very strong-willed and it takes someone like that to see something through to the end. BJ was an amazing man, but without these people I mentioned, and many, many more, nothing ever would have come of any of his vision.