Chiropractic Table
date: label: date made
content: 1979
notes: label: Description
content: Dr. J. Clay Thompson (1909-1995), who taught at the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, introduced the drop headpiece technique to chiropractic practice in 1955. The first chiropractic tables made to Dr. Thompson's design appeared in 1957. This table, which is of that sort, was made by the Williams Manufacturing Co. in Elgin, Ill. Inscriptions read “Zenith Hi Low / Donated by / Williams Manufacturing” and “Ser. No. 46046” inscriptions.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Palmer College of Chiropractic
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0196.03
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0196.03
label: accession number
content: 1980.0196
objectType: label: Object Name
content: table, adjusting, chiropractic
label: Object Name
content: table, adjusting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 in x 18 in x 96 in; 58.42 cm x 45.72 cm x 243.84 cm