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Braving Criticism, Ridicule, and the Risk of Failure

We all need words of motivation and encouragement from time to time, and B.J. Palmer was a great source of both. So here is the master himself, giving all of us his words of wisdom from Volume I – The Science of Chiropractic. Enjoy! “It is no easy matter, indeed, when one has reached maturity, [...]

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Going to Jail For the Principle: Dr. Herbert Ross Reaver

Herbert Ross Reaver was the most jailed chiropractor in history, having been arrested a total of 12 times. The first 8 times, he just paid his fine and went about his way. The next four carried harsher consequences, with one of the terms being six months of labor. At the time of his arrests, he [...]

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What is Mental Food for One is Poison for Another

This week’s B.J. Palmer excerpt is coming a couple days early. It is from Volume I: The Science of Chiropractic published in 1920. This comes from the beginning of the book and is a series of epigrams B.J. Palmer wrote. I chose some of the best ones from pages 15-17. Enjoy! “Chiropractic is a science. [...]

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Disease is a Lack of Normal Functions

This week, B.J. Palmer discusses some basic chiropractic fundamentals straight out of Volume I: The Science of Chiropractic, published in 1920. Enjoy! “All movements, whether normal or abnormal, of, or in the body (including blood circulation), are but the personification of mental equivalents—mental functions guided by Innate Intelligence, creating physical expression. All ache or pain [...]

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5,000 Years of Failure at Finding a Cure for All Diseases

This week’s B.J. Palmer excerpt comes from Volume XVIII: The Subluxation Specific – The Adjustment Specific published in 1934. Enjoy! “For 5,000 years the medical profession have been consistently seeking A SPECIFIC FOR THE CURE OF ALL DISEASES. First one way, then another, they have woven off and on the stage of human effort—always to [...]

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B.J. Palmer Epigrams To Start Out Your Day

B.J. Palmer did a lot of great things in his lifetime. He developed chiropractic, he was influential in the development of radio in this country, he brought the first x-ray machine to the United States, etc., etc. Because of the many great things he did, it gives a little more credence to the words of [...]

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Small Constants vs Big Variables by Dr. B.J. Palmer of Davenport, IA

From Volume XIX- The Known Man by B.J. Palmer in 1936. Enjoy! “A physician has a dozen ways to “diagnose” a disease, a hundred ways to “treat” it, a thousand kinds of apparatus to “cure” it. Which contrary variable will he use first? A Chiropractor theoretically has twenty-four vertebrae to adjust, throws in the skull [...]

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B.J. Palmer: Stimulating the Inhibition and Inhibiting the Stimulation

Once again, this is from Volume XIX- The Known Man by B.J. Palmer, published in 1936. Enjoy! “The ordinary and average physician knows no better than to stimulate and inhibit the inhibition and stimulation. He was taught that, accepted it as a true premise, practicing it as such. He sees such in symptoms and pathologies. [...]

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B.J. Palmer: Constant On Feeling, Variable On Pain

I read this the other night in Volume XIX – The Known Man by B.J. Palmer. I added spaces for easier readability. Enjoy! “There is a constant on sensation. People who have no sensation are those with normal feeling and those with no feeling. Healthy organs have normal feeling and normal feeling has no sensation. [...]

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The General and his Army Part 3: Black Ties, Clay Thompson, and Clear View Sanitarium

(Editor’s note: This is the third part in a three-part series written by Dr. Steve Agocs. Dr. Agocs practices in the Kansas City, MO area.) Black Ties and the PSCC In the 1930’s and ‘40’s BJ had a semi-secret, invitation-only group of doctors who worked with him on refining  and developing (which is probably where [...]

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