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Article: Psychiropathy: the first ever legislation to authorize chiropractic practice, its author and his influence on B.J. Palmer and S.M. Langworthy
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Article co-written by Northwestern Health Sciences University faculty member John Wolfe, Jr. The article was published in Chiropractic History in 2019. Citation: Chiropractic History, 2019, Vol. 39, Issue 1, p14.
Abstract
The chiropractic profession has long been told that the first legislation seeking authorization of chiropractic practice was introduced in Minnesota in1905. In fact, the first such legislation was introduced in Iowa in 1904, under the name “psychiropathy,” an umbrella to cover healing by hand (aschiropractic or magnetic) or mind (psychic or suggestive) or by other drugless means. This article introduces the author of that legislation, Osce P.Butters, a character previously unknown to chiropractic history; traces thefate of the bill; and explores how Butters and psychiropathy involved andmay have influenced chiropractic pioneers B.J. Palmer and Solon M. Langworthy.