Port Perry in Durham Region, Ontario — Central Canada (North America)

Daniel David Palmer

(1845-1913)

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, June 2, 2024

1. Daniel David Palmer Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

[English] Raised in Port Perry, D. D. Palmer was self-educated, well read, and keenly interested in spiritualism and alternative medicine. While working as a magnetic healer in the United States, his clinical observations and analyses led him to conclude that proper spinal alignment could restore ‘nerve flow’ and ensure good general health. Despite legal and financial setbacks, he published books on chiropractic treatment and founded and taught at several chiropractic schools. Palmer is recognized as the founder of chiropractic for his crucial role in creating and popularizing this alternative medical care in North America.

[Français] Autodidacte et cultivé, D. D. Palmer, élevé à Port Perry, s'intéressait vivement au spiritisme et à la médecine alternative. Magnétothérapeute aux États-Unis, il conclut de ses observations et de ses analyses cliniques qu'un bon alignement des vertèbres pouvait rétablir le « flux nerveux » et préserver la santé. Malgré des ennuis juridiques et financiers, il publia des livres sui la chiropratique, fonda des écoles dans ce domaine et enseigna dans maints établissements. Considéré comme le père de la chiropratique, il joua un rôle clé dans l'élaboration et la diffusion de cette méthode alternative de traitement en Amérique du Nord.

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Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Science & Medicine. In addition, it is included in the Canada, Historic Sites and Monuments Board series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1845.

Location. 44° 6.318′ N, 78° 56.527′ W. Marker is in Port Perry, Ontario, in Durham Region. It is on Water Street just south of Queen Street, on the right when traveling north. The marker is located beside the Water Street sidewalk, near the northwest corner of Palmer Park. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 175 Water Street, Port Perry ON L0C 1B0, Canada. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Greater Toronto,

specifically on the Golden Horseshoe,

in the York, Durham and Headwaters Area,

and in the Toronto Metropolitan Area.

It is also in Central Canada.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once a British colony,

the Viceroyalty of New France,

the Haudenosaunee

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, June 2, 2024

2. Daniel David Palmer Marker

Looking east from Water Street; Palmer Memorial Park and Lake Scugog are in the background.

(Iroquois) Confederacy,

and Rupert’s Land.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: A different marker also named Daniel David Palmer (here, next to this marker); Harvey Lillard (here, next to this marker); The Port Perry Grain Elevator (a few steps from this marker); St. Charles Hotel (within shouting distance of this marker); The Currie Grain Elevator (within shouting distance of this marker); The Ackerman Block (within shouting distance of this marker); Steamboats on Lake Scugog (within shouting distance of this marker); Canadian Bank of Commerce (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Port Perry.

Related markers. Click here for a list of markers that are related to this marker.

Also see . . .
1. Daniel David Palmer (Wikipedia).

Excerpt: The founder of chiropractic. Palmer was born in the hamlet of Brown's Corners (later Audley) of Pickering Township, in what is now Ajax, Ontario. He received formal education until the age of 11 years, at the Audley School, and was subsequently raised in Port Perry. At age twenty
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he moved to the United States with his family. Palmer held various jobs such as a beekeeper, school teacher, and grocery store owner, and had an interest in the various health philosophies of his day, including magnetic healing and spiritualism. Palmer believed that the human body had an ample supply of natural healing power transmitted through the nervous system. He suggested that if any one organ was affected by an illness, it merely must not be receiving its normal "nerve supply" which he dubbed a "spinal misalignment", or subluxation. He saw chiropractic as a form of realigning to reestablish the supply. Palmer practiced magnetic healing beginning in the mid-1880s in Burlington and Davenport, Iowa.

(Submitted on August 13, 2024, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

2. Palmer College of Chiropractic: Biography of Daniel David Palmer (pdf).

Excerpt: Known as The Discoverer of Chiropractic and as The Founder of the chiropractic profession and Palmer College of Chiropractic, Daniel David (D.D.) Palmer performed the first chiropractic adjustment on Sept. 18, 1895, in Davenport, Iowa. He founded Palmer School and Cure (now Palmer College of Chiropractic) in Davenport in 1897 and died in 1913. He was posthumously named a distinguished Fellow in the Palmer Academy of Chiropractic in 2006.

(Submitted on August 13, 2024, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

3. Palmer, Daniel David National Historic Person. Creator and popularizer of the practice of chiropractic medicine. (Submitted on August 13, 2024, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

Credits. This page was last revised on August 13, 2024. It was originally submitted on August 13, 2024, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 265 times since then and 25 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 13, 2024, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.