| D.D. Palmer's Straw of Hay | |
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| The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back | |
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Origin |
Daniel David Palmer |
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Type |
Wheat Straw |
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Effects |
Snaps subject’s spinal vertebrae |
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Downsides |
Irreversible |
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Activation |
Concentrating about a person and snapping |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
706399-6058 |
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Shelf |
322598-2927-924-B |
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Date of Collection |
1980 |
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Origin[]
Daniel David Palmer (1845 - 1913) was the founder of chiropractic. In 1865 Palmer moved from Canada to the United States to start up a magnetic healing office. Later he met Harvey Lillard, a janitor who was hearing impaired. After adjusting the man's spine he was able to recover Lillard's hearing. Palmer developed the theory that misalignment of the bones in the body was the basic cause of all uneasiness and the majority of these misalignments were in the spinal column. In 1897 he opened the Palmer School of Chiropractic to start teaching his techniques. Due to an oral fixation he would either have a toothpick in his mouth or a piece of hay. At first he had to handle lawsuits about the school as it was seen as a controversial way of healing. Students who completed the school would blur the truth making unsupported claims about magnet therapy by using pseudoscience, this fell back onto Palmer and his school. When confronted by these accusations he would feel enraged but would calm himself by simply snapping the piece of hay or toothpick and tossing it away, only to snag another one shortly afterward.
Effects[]
While focusing on a person and snapped in half the discs in the lumbar section of the spinal column are broken. The piece of straw returns to the whole piece while the victim's back remains broken.