The early philosophy and history of chiropractic the life and work of dd palmer works to examine the foundation of palmers beliefs and their effect on the philosophical groundwork of the chiropractic profession in an attempt to understand it in terms of modern scientific philosophy the central questions that this work attempts to answer are what were the historical and philosophical circumstances that influenced dd palmers ideas and his creation of chiropractic and how . The early philosophy and history of chiropractic the life and work of dd palmer works to examine the foundation of palmers beliefs and their on the philosophical groundwork of the chiropractic profession in an attempt to understand it in terms of modern scientific philosophy the central questions that this work attempts to answer are what were the historical and philosophical circumstances that influenced dd palmers ideas and his creation of chiropractic and how did d . The history of chiropractic began in 1895 when daniel david palmer of iowa performed the first chiropractic adjustment on a partially deaf janitor harvey lillard while lillard was working without his shirt on in palmers office lillard bent over to empty the trash can palmer noticed that lillard had a vertebra out of position he asked lillard what happened and lillard replied i moved the wrong way and i heard a pop in my back and thats when i lost my hearing palmer