Word: chiroptera
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...chiropractors who, as the American Bureau of Chiropractic, met in Manhattan last week, saw no fun in the pun and joke played on them by the new Encyclopedia Britannica. Explained therein in immediate sequence are Chiromancy (Palmistry), Chiron (centaur wise in healing), Chiropodist, Chiropractic, Chiroptera (Bats). In chronicling Chiropractic the Encyclopedia commits one of its numerous errors. It pronounces B. J. Palmer the chief founder of the movement. The late Daniel David Palmer laid the foundations of chiropractic (1895). Bartholomew Josiah Palmer, his son, founded the Palmer School of Chiropractic...
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