This is D.D. Palmer, the father of chiropractic and a fanatical quack, who shouldn't have been allowed to touch anyone. Attendance at the Palmer School of Chiropractic was forbidden to blacks.
This is Harvey Lillard, the black janitor in Palmer's building, and the first chiropractic patient. Palmer claimed he cured Lillard's deafness using chiropractic techniques. Lilliard agreed, though, under Jim Crow, no one is sure if he was allowed to disagree - if he wanted to keep his job. Regardless - whether the story was confirmed by the supposedly-trained "Physician" or his layman black janitor under duress - neither man was aware the nerve for hearing is NOT located in the spine.
And a business was born.
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