• Bovine G

• Homewood, Albert Earl, 1916-1990
• Manuscripts as Topic
• Palmer, Daniel David, 1845-1913 / history
• Subluxation / history

Abstract: The author obtained a typed manuscript by A.E. Homewood copyrighted February 1954, which appears to be an early prototype of Homewood's 1963 book, The Neurodynamics of the Vertebral Subluxation. The manuscript of 29 pages is a dissertation similar to Homewood's 1963 book; however, it contains no information of or references to D.D. Palmer, the founder of chiropractic. This article outlines how in 1954 Homewood obtained a copy of Palmer's 1910 book, The Chiropractor's Adjuster, and became so enthused with Palmer's ideas and writing that Palmer's input was then added to Homewood's thinking on the topic of subluxation. When the 1963 book was written, it was expanded to include many of Palmer's thoughts and quotes and today has become an important reference for the chiropractic profession. After Homewood read Palmer's book, he typed out another 73 pages which contained 514 of Palmer's quotes.  Homewood incorporated 68 of these quotes when he wrote the 1963 book. The author describes the provenance of the manuscript obtained in 1974 from the library of the late Harold W.F. Beasley of St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

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