2015 TCA Centennial Powerpoint

This presentation was prepared and presented for the TCA Centennial program.  Brief captioning has been added between the slides.

1909

• The Carnegie Foundation commissioned Abraham Flexner to visit medical schools and write a report on the status of medical education in the United States and Canada.  The report found that many of the schools were substandard.  

• The Rockefeller Foundation helped bring about implementation of the report’s recommendations through the funding of additional grants, which gave rise to  the strongest professional monopoly in the United States – Organized Medicine.  Not only was Organized Medicine able to “clean up” and improve their own schools, they were also able to shut down their competition by closing schools of the other healing arts — which included the chiropractic schools. 

• Consequently, chiropractic in most states came to be considered practicing medicine without a license — a crime punishable by fine or imprisonment.

1908

• August 1908, the Carver-Denny Kiropractic College in Oklahoma City became the Carver Chiropractic College, the first substantial competitor to the Palmer Chiropractic School.

• September 1908, a San Antonio newspaper ran a short article on chiropractic and Harvey Lillard’s recovery.

• Dr. J. N. Stone founded the Chiropractic College of San Antonio and presided there until 1913.  He and his wife, Ida C. Stone, practiced in San Antonio as “Kiro-Practic Spinal Masseurs" and "Nerve Specialists.”

1907

• Texas Legislature requires that applicants for medical licensure must have attended a “reputable” medical school whose course of instruction should total 4,000 hours during four college years. 

1906

• The first chiropractic licensing law is introduced and passed by the Minnesota legislature, but vetoed by its governor.

• Both D. D. and B. J. Palmer were indicted on charges of violating the Iowa Medical Practice Act.

• Convicted of the charge, D. D.  Palmer relinquishes his interest in the Palmer School of Chiropractic and moves to Oklahoma where he continues to practice chiropractic.