Daniel David Palmer, the "father" of chiropractic who performed the first chiropractic adjustment in 1895, was an avid spiritualist. He maintained that the notion and basic principles of chiropractic treatment were passed along to him during a seance by a long-dead doctor.

"The knowledge and philosophy given me by Dr. Jim Atkinson, an intelligent spiritual being ... appealed to my reason," Palmer wrote in his memoir "The Chiropractor," which was published in 1914 after his death in Los Angeles. Atkinson had died 50 years prior to Palmer's epiphany.

Before learning of spinal adjustments from a supernatural entity, Palmer spent nine years as a practitioner of what was known as "magnetic healing," in which he would diagnose and cure ailments by manipulating a magnetic field surrounding the patient's body.

HERE'S THE LUNATIC HERE. I HOPE I'M NOT RELATED TO THIS CRANK.

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REGLIGIOUS BASIS FOR "SCIENCE" OF THIS WHOLESALE QUACKERY

“The New Theology” of healing or the “religion of chiropractic” stood on a “religious plank” termed “InnatIntelligence,” or simply “Innate.” Palmer expounded:
    “That which I named innate (born with) is a segment of that Intelligence which fills the universe,” a “part of the Creator.” Displacement, or “subluxation,” of spinal vertebrae impedes the freedom of Innate to flow from the universe through the human body. “Adjustments” restore Innate’s ability to “care for and direct the functions of the body.”

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