Summary: In this episode we talk about the history of Chiropractic, the principles it was founded upon and what is it really that Chiropractors do. We often thing of Chiropractors as neck & low pain doctors, which we are absolutely great at, but the spinal adjustment does much more than remove pain…<br> Show Notes:<br> <br> * 1800s – Health scams<br> * No standardized medical education curriculum<br> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur">Louis Pasteur</a><br> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_B%C3%A9champ">Antoine Bechamp</a><br> * 1847 AMA formed<br> * 1849 AMA organizes a board to debunk “quack” remedies<br> * 1901 JD Rockefeller started the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research<br> * 1906 A list of unacceptable medical schools were compiled<br> * 1910 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report">Flexner Report </a>published (funded by the Carnegie foundation) coordinated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Flexner">Abraham Flexner</a><br> * 1895 (September 18) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_David_Palmer">DD Palmer</a> delivers the first Chiropractic adjustment to Harvey Lillard<br> * Subluxation is the cause of all disease. The subluxation is caused by 3 things: trauma, poisons & autosuggestion<br> * Universal Intelligence & Innate Intelligence<br> * 1963 AMA creates “Committee on Quackery”<br> * 1966 AMA calls Chiropractic “unscientific cult”<br> * 1976 Chester Wilk sues AMA, September 1987<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilk_v._American_Medical_Ass'n"> “Wilks” case</a> won against the AMA for Antitrust lawsuit<br> * What is it that Chiropractors actually do…<br> * <a href="http://danmurphydc.com/Article_48-03.Winsor.pdf">Winsor Autopsies</a> – curvatures of the spine adversely affects the sympathetic nervous system, abnormal spinal curvatures precede organic visceral diseases, postural distortions causing sympathetic dysfunction can be treated with fulcrum-assisted reversal (adjustment) of the postural distortion.<br> * <a href="https://danmurphydc.com/Rhodes_Flu.pdf">Chiropractic & 1918 flu</a><br> <br> <br> <br>
