History of chiropractic - Quiz
History of chiropractic
  • 1. What is the status of the terms 'innate' and 'subluxation' within the chiropractic community?
A) They have been universally defined by law.
B) They refer strictly to anatomical structures without ambiguity.
C) There is continued disagreement over their meanings.
D) They are considered outdated and no longer used.
  • 2. What is the nature of 'Innate Intelligence' in chiropractic?
A) A faith-based, unscientific belief.
B) A proven neurological theory.
C) A medical term for immune response.
D) A mathematical formula for spinal alignment.
  • 3. Historically, why were many chiropractors opposed to vaccination?
A) They were prohibited from doing so by law.
B) They believed all diseases were traceable to causes in the spine.
C) They believed in the superiority of natural immunity only.
D) Vaccines were not available to them.
  • 4. What stance did D.D. Palmer take on inoculation?
A) He called it the height of absurdity to use filthy animal poison.
B) He believed vaccines should only be used for smallpox.
C) He claimed vaccines caused spinal subluxations.
D) He was a strong advocate for public vaccination.
  • 5. How do some chiropractors currently view water fluoridation?
A) As a primary treatment for spinal misalignment.
B) As incompatible with chiropractic philosophy and an infringement of personal freedom.
C) As a mandatory health requirement for all patients.
D) As a scientific intervention supported by all chiropractic groups.
  • 6. When was the AMA's 'Committee on Quackery' created?
A) November 2, 1963.
B) August 12, 1961.
C) January 1, 1975.
D) September 25, 1987.
  • 7. What was a primary goal of the AMA's 'Committee on Quackery'?
A) To fund research into spinal manipulation.
B) To standardize chiropractic education.
C) To integrate chiropractic into hospitals.
D) To contain and eliminate chiropractic.
  • 8. What was the role of 'Sore Throat' in the history of the chiropractic-AMA conflict?
A) The attorney who represented the AMA.
B) A nickname for a leading chiropractor.
C) An anonymous source who leaked information about the Committee on Quackery.
D) A medical doctor who advocated for chiropractic.
  • 9. What was the outcome of the Wilk et al. vs. AMA lawsuit?
A) The AMA was found to have engaged in an unlawful conspiracy in restraint of trade.
B) The lawsuit was dismissed due to lack of evidence.
C) Chiropractic was officially classified as a cult by the court.
D) The AMA was ordered to pay for chiropractic training.
  • 10. When did the B.J. Palmer Research Clinic begin testing chiropractic theories?
A) 1935.
B) 1961.
C) 1975.
D) 1983.
  • 11. What was the function of the medical division in the B.J. Palmer Research Clinic?
A) To establish a medical diagnosis before treatment.
B) To administer spinal adjustments.
C) To perform surgeries on patients.
D) To promote public health programs.
  • 12. What was the 'HIO' technique developed by B.J. Palmer?
A) Health Improvement Operation.
B) High Intensity Osteopathy.
C) Hole In One (adjustment of only the atlas).
D) Human Integrated Orthopedics.
  • 13. What did Samuel Homola propose regarding chiropractic?
A) It should focus on conservative care of musculoskeletal conditions.
B) It should merge completely with medical doctors.
C) It should focus exclusively on neurological testing.
D) It should abandon all physical manipulation.
  • 14. When was the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT) launched?
A) 1963.
B) 1987.
C) 1978.
D) 1995.
  • 15. Who identified a 1983 JMPT commentary as the birth of chiropractic as a science?
A) Chester Wilk.
B) Joseph C. Keating, Jr.
C) Samuel Homola.
D) Simon Singh.
  • 16. Why was Simon Singh sued for libel in 2008?
A) For criticizing the activities of the British Chiropractic Association.
B) For conducting unauthorized clinical trials.
C) For exposing medical trust practices.
D) For calling chiropractic a pseudoscience.
  • 17. What was the eventual outcome of the libel suit involving Simon Singh?
A) The case was transferred to the European Court of Human Rights.
B) The judge ruled that chiropractic was a bogus treatment.
C) Simon Singh was fined by the Royal Courts of Justice.
D) The British Chiropractic Association withdrew its suit in 2010.
  • 18. In what year did D.D. Palmer theorize that nerves control health?
A) 1914
B) 1910
C) 1911
D) 1913
  • 19. What was the official cause of D.D. Palmer's death in 1913?
A) Old age
B) Heart failure
C) Car accident
D) Typhoid
  • 20. What did D.D. Palmer claim caused 95 percent of all diseases?
A) Pinched nerves
B) A subluxated vertebra
C) Altered blood flow
D) Poor diet
  • 21. Which publication was released posthumously in 1914?
A) The Chiropractor
B) Health and Nerves
C) The Palmer School Gazette
D) The History of Chiropractic
  • 22. What did D.D. Palmer replace his theory of pinched nerves with?
A) Bone displacement
B) Muscular tension
C) Altered nerve vibration
D) Spinal misalignment
  • 23. In what year did B.J. Palmer assume control of the Palmer School?
A) 1907
B) 1910
C) 1906
D) 1920
  • 24. What term did B.J. Palmer use for spinal X-rays?
A) Spinography
B) Spinal imaging
C) Radiography
D) Chiropractics
  • 25. Who was the DC charged with unlicensed practice of osteopathy in 1907?
A) B.J. Palmer
B) Shegataro Morikubo
C) D.D. Palmer
D) John Howard
  • 26. How did B.J. Palmer describe the basis of his chiropractic school?
A) A business basis
B) A strictly academic basis
C) A medical basis
D) A non-profit basis
  • 27. Approximately how many chiropractic schools opened in the 15 years following the school's growth?
A) 100
B) 30
C) 50
D) 10
  • 28. During the first 30 years, how many prosecutions occurred for practicing medicine without a license?
A) Around 5,000
B) Exactly 12,000
C) More than 15,000
D) Less than 1,000
  • 29. What success rate did Tom Morris and Fred Hartwell have in defending UCA members?
A) 20%
B) 95%
C) 50%
D) 80%
  • 30. What term was used to describe practitioners who mixed chiropractic with other cures?
A) Straights
B) Generalists
C) Integrators
D) Mixers
  • 31. In what year did the practice of osteopathy begin in the United States?
A) 1874
B) 1864
C) 1900
D) 1892
  • 32. Who is the founder of osteopathy?
A) A medical legislator
B) Andrew Jackson Davis
C) Andrew Taylor Still
D) Daniel David Palmer
  • 33. Which figures are thought to have influenced Andrew Taylor Still?
A) Florence Nightingale
B) Daniel David Palmer
C) Andrew Jackson Davis
D) Hippocrates
  • 34. When was the American School of Osteopathy established?
A) 15 April 1874
B) 20 May 1900
C) 10 June 1895
D) 20 May 1892
  • 35. Where was the American School of Osteopathy located?
A) Kirksville, Missouri
B) Chicago, Illinois
C) St. Louis, Missouri
D) Kansas City, Kansas
  • 36. How many students were in the first class of the American School of Osteopathy?
A) Five
B) Twenty-one
C) Ten
D) Fifty
  • 37. What specific disease did Still claim he could stop by shaking a child?
A) Scarlet fever
B) Spinal meningitis
C) Smallpox
D) Influenza
  • 38. What is the name of the earliest known medical text mentioned in the text?
A) The Grecian Code
B) Ancient Egyptian Healing Arts
C) Edwin Smith papyrus
D) The Bone-Setter's Manual
  • 39. In what year was the Edwin Smith papyrus written?
A) 1552 AD
B) 1737 BC
C) 1800 BC
D) 1552 BC
  • 40. What was the famous bone-setter Sally Mapp's nickname?
A) London Healer
B) Crazy Sally
C) Bone Queen
D) The Epsom Surgeon
  • 41. Who taught Sally Mapp her bone-setting skills?
A) Her father
B) A self-taught mentor
C) A court surgeon
D) A local physician
  • 42. Where did Sally Mapp perform many of her treatments?
A) Epsom Medical Center
B) London University
C) Grecian Coffee House
D) Royal Hospital
  • 43. What was one specific skill attributed to Sally Mapp?
A) Performing complex amputations
B) Resetting dislocated shoulders
C) Creating new surgical tools
D) Prescribing medicinal herbs
  • 44. In what year did Daniel David Palmer perform the first chiropractic adjustment?
A) 1895
B) 1907
C) 1975
D) 1896
  • 45. Who received the first chiropractic adjustment?
A) Dr. Jim Atkinson
B) Daniel David Palmer
C) Samuel H. Weed
D) William Harvey Lillard
  • 46. Where was Daniel David Palmer's office located?
A) Louisiana
B) Iowa
C) Wisconsin
D) Kansas
  • 47. Who coined the word 'chiropractic'?
A) Daniel David Palmer
B) Samuel H. Weed
C) Dr. Jim Atkinson
D) William Harvey Lillard
  • 48. What Greek word meaning 'hand' is part of the word 'chiropractic'?
A) bios
B) praktikos
C) physis
D) cheiro
  • 49. D. D. Palmer claimed he received chiropractic from which deceased physician?
A) Dr. Jim Atkinson
B) Samuel H. Weed
C) William Harvey Lillard
D) Andrew Still
  • 50. Which of the following philosophies was NOT part of early chiropractic?
A) Magnetism
B) Vitalism
C) Evidence-based medicine
D) Spiritualism
  • 51. Which technique did D. D. Palmer claim to be the first to use?
A) Massage therapy
B) Surgical intervention
C) Acupuncture
D) Short-lever HVLA
  • 52. In which state did the first successful chiropractic licensing statute occur in 1913?
A) Iowa
B) Kansas
C) Wisconsin
D) Louisiana
  • 53. What term describes chiropractors who rely solely on spinal adjustments?
A) Spiritualists
B) Mixers
C) Osteopaths
D) Straights
  • 54. What led to the development of chiropractic research in 1975?
A) The death of D. D. Palmer
B) An antitrust lawsuit
C) The first licensing statute
D) A conference sponsored by the NIH
  • 55. What occupation did William Harvey Lillard hold?
A) Teacher
B) Janitor
C) Attorney
D) Physician
  • 56. What medical condition was Harvey Lillard suffering from when he visited D.D. Palmer?
A) General fatigue
B) Chronic back pain
C) A sore lump in his spine
D) Partial deafness
  • 57. What scientific theory did Louis Pasteur refute in 1859?
A) Magnetic healing
B) Spontaneous generation
C) Bacterial infection
D) Natural selection
  • 58. Why did critics argue against the link between spinal adjustments and hearing restoration?
A) Harvey Lillard was not actually deaf
B) The adjustment caused more damage to the spine
C) The adjustment was not specific enough
D) Spinal nerves do not extend into the encephalon
  • 59. What term did Andrew Taylor Still use to define magnetic healing?
A) Bonesetting
B) Homeopathy
C) Hypnotism
D) Chiropractic
  • 60. In what year did D.D. Palmer add a school to his magnetic healing infirmary?
A) 1894
B) 1903
C) 1896
D) 1910
  • 61. Who opened the American School of Chiropractic & Nature Cure in 1903?
A) D.D. Palmer
B) Solon M. Langworthy
C) John Howard
D) B.J. Palmer
  • 62. What did the local Davenport paper call D.D. Palmer in 1894?
A) A quack
B) A scientist
C) A physician
D) A genius
  • 63. What specific condition did D.D. Palmer claim to treat after adjusting a displaced vertebra near the nerves innervating the heart?
A) Headaches
B) Deafness
C) Heart trouble
D) Back pain
  • 64. When was the American Medical Association (AMA) formed?
A) 1847
B) 1903
C) 1896
D) 1910
  • 65. What was the name of the report, financed by the Carnegie Foundation, that closed hundreds of medical schools in 1910?
A) Flexner Report
B) AMA Report
C) Rockefeller Report
D) Davenport Report
  • 66. Which school was named as the model school in the 1910 Flexner Report?
A) Johns Hopkins
B) Harvard Medical School
C) Palmer School of Chiropractic
D) American School of Chiropractic
  • 67. What ideology by 1895 created political pressure to improve science and math education in the US?
A) Kulturopolitik
B) Eclectic medicine
C) Nostrum remedium
D) Magnetic healing
  • 68. Which of these individuals was NOT mentioned as one of the first graduates of the Palmer School of Chiropractic?
A) B.J. Palmer
B) Shegataro Morikubo
C) Andrew P. Davis
D) John D. Rockefeller
  • 69. What term did chiropractors use for the manipulable lesion that interfered with the nervous system?
A) Fracture
B) Sprain
C) Dislocation
D) Subluxation
  • 70. Who started a campaign against drugless healers in Davenport in 1899?
A) Heinrich Matthey
B) Andrew Still
C) D.D. Palmer
D) Solon Langworthy
  • 71. How did Langworthy describe the 'life force' in his curriculum?
A) The heart
B) The brain
C) The spine
D) The liver
  • 72. What were the 'spinal windows' referred to by Langworthy?
A) Intervertebral foramina
B) Transverse processes
C) Disc spaces
D) Spinous processes
  • 73. What was the neurocalometer, introduced by B.J. Palmer in 1924?
A) A patient record management system.
B) A surgical instrument.
C) An X-ray machine.
D) A temperature-sensing device.
  • 74. Who was the second president of the ACA credited with its growth through his work at the National Chiropractic College?
A) B.J. Palmer
B) Dossa D. Evans
C) Frank R. Margetts
D) John J. Nugent
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