The Florida Chiropractic Society ( FCS ) is celebrating its 54th anniversary this year, nearly five decades since its inception in 1965. In order to understand just how influential Dr. BJ Palmer was in the establishment of the FCS, it's necessary to go back some years before the organization was formed. Palmer's role as the developer of chiropractic is well known - and needs no further explanation here.
What may not be so well known today was his effect on chiropractic students at the Palmer School of Chiropractic. According to one Class of '57 graduate of the Palmer School, In BJ's era, you either loved him - or hated him. There was no in between. He was so adamant about "chi-rho-prac-tik" and insistent that it be unadulterated, that he would not accept any compromise, period.
By the latter half of the 1950's, Palmer was concerned about the direction chiropractic would take after his passing. He stated this clearly in one of his later writings entitled "Where To?" "As the years have crept upon us, we find we have exhausted ourselves.
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