Index to Chiropractic Literature

• Crisp KA

As center of education and moral support for intrepid early chiropractors battling social and medical prejudice, lyceum provided the setting for many of the early discoveries, pronouncements, and controversies of the profession.  The great NCM controversy, which split the profession and almost bankrupted the Palmer School, was sparked by a speech by B.J. Palmer at lyceum in 1924.  Other developments in chiropractic practice and politics played a key role in later lyceums.   The concept predates chiropractic and is traced to its Greek and early American origins.   Later evolutions of the concept, including abandonment of the term by Palmer and its adoption by the “straight” schools, are also described.

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• Education, Chiropractic / history
• Education, Continuing / history