Chiropractic was founded in 1895 when DD Palmer who was a magnetic healer, had a janitor named Harvey Lillard who came in mentioning that he lost his hearing as he was bending down to pick something up and reported that he felt a pop in his back and at the same time as his back injury he lost most of his hearing. Upon hearing this DD Palmer observed a vertebrae (one of the bones in spine) displaced and protruding, so he adjusted the bone by force of hand back into place and in doing that Harvey Lillard reported that his hearing was back and he could hear the clock tick and the cars outside. So, with this experience DD Palmer thought he had the cure to hearing so he advertised and claimed to have a cure for hearing. Many deaf people came and DD palmer did not successfully cure everyones hearing problems but what he did notice was that when he put the vertebrae bones of the spine back into place his patients were reporting all sorts of problems and ailments getting better such as asthma, heart palpitations, migraines, pain ect. It was at this point DD Palmer knew just how big his discovery was and by putting the Greek words cheir and praxis together, meaning when combined, done by hand.