Daniel David Palmer—Inventor of Chiropractic

DD Palmer (1845–1913) was born in Canada but moved to the US at an early age. He pursued a multitude of professions before he learned osteopathy from Andrew Still, copied several of his concepts, and thus created chiropractic. He then famously claimed that 95% of all diseases are caused by spinal subluxations and that adjusting these abnormalities is therefore the optimal therapy for nearly all conditions. Today, we know that subluxations, as understood by chiropractors, do not exist. Palmer and his son managed to popularize chiropractic regardless. DD Palmer founded several schools of chiropractic and wrote several books that still form the basis of this therapy. He died after being hit by a car driven by his own son.