History

       The man who started the profession of Chiropractics was Daniel David Palmer, for whom the Palmer Chiropractic College was named. After many years of study on human health and disease, he tried his knowledge out on a few people and found success in his first attempts to use this new science and philosophy he had developed. This was in 1895, at this time he began to share what he knew with some people and by 1897 he opened the Palmer School and Cure, later to be called the Palmer Infirmary and Chiropractic Institute. The campus that now exists was started in 1905 when he purchased the property that became the heart of the present college building on Palmer Hill.

Daniel Palmer spent many years of research and study, one of the studies was on magnetic healing. His son, B.J.(Bartlett Joshua) was one of his first students and began teaching with his father before he finished his curiculum, after he graduated B.J. took over as dean of the school. B.J. was a very charismatic leader and he soon had the attention of people worldwide. He had a knack for attracting the best in administration and faculty to his college.

B.J. married one of the Chiropractic students, Mabel Heath, she soon became the treasurer and part of the faculty staff. They had a son, David, and he traveled the world with his parents when they would lecture, he became a student at the school and lectured with his parents. He took over the presidency when his father died in 1961. When his father died he has a list of 20 books he had written to his credit, as much as B.J. came to be known for his writing ability, David became known as a superior educator. His perceived the school as a place of higher learning and he changed the name of the school to Palmer College of Chiropractic. His goals for the school superceded those of his predicessors and the school continued to excel in its acheivements and educational vision.

B.J. had been known for his ability to write epigrams. An epigram is similar to a proverb , the following epigram is one of his best:

*There is a power within--a fountain head of unlimited resource--and he who controls it controls circumstances instead of it controlling him. B.J. Palmer