This presentation traced the life of Paul von de Schoeppe, an early (1910 P.S.C.) DC, who practiced in Antigo, WI. Before taking up chiropractic, von de Schoeppe took a sanitarium management course from Bernarr McFadden at his Battle Creek institution.
von de Schoeppe opened a school, then decided to erect a building to house the school, a hotel, his office, and a sanitarium. It opened under the name Hotel Backbone in February of 1913. VDS was bankrupt by September of that year and, soon thereafter, moved to Duluth.
The hotel continued to operate under that name until 1916, when it was re-named Hotel Antigo. It operated as a hotel until the 1960s. It remains in operation as low-income housing for men.
Chiropractic was founded by D. D. Palmer, who performed his first spinal adjustments in 1895 and started the first chiropractic school, the Palmer School and Cure, in 1897, both in Iowa.1 Diplomas granted to early graduates proclaimed them competent to teach and practice chiropractic, and many of these newly minted chiropractors did just that, often tutoring individuals and small groups in offices and clinics rather than setting up school buildings.2 For many of these tutorial schools, whether they had any graduates or even any students is unknown, and some schools were known to have been diploma mills3 (teaching chiropractic by correspondence course seems like a questionable proposition). However, many other schools operated by the standards for a quality course of study as defined at that time.4 The earliest school teaching chiropractic technique that is known to have been in operation in Minnesota was the National School of Neuropathy & Psycho-Magnetic Healing, located in Minneapolis in 1899.5 Including tutorial schools, approximately 30 schools operated in the state from 1899 to NWCC’s founding in 1941.6 The total number of schools operating is difficult to gauge with precision, as some underwent slight name changes and others adopted names nearly identical to those of other schools. Many schools seem to have been in existence for no more than a year or two.7 Four early Minnesota chiropractic schools are known to have operated for at least a decade.
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.
The intent of this work is to document important and instructive events in the life of Shegetaro Morikubo leading up to and following the 1907 scope of practice trial in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
This presentation explores the history of chiropractic, tracing its development and key milestones over time.
This presentation takes the form of a timeline, detailing the evolution of the chiropractic profession in Minnesota starting in 1899.