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Chiropractic healing was a pseudoscience along the lines of phrenology or electric medicine that was briefly popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was founded in Iowa in 1895 on the belief that misalignment of the spine and joints was the cause and cure for all diseases and had a lot of quasi-metaphysical ideas attached. The whole practice eventually fell out of favor by the WWI when state medical boards began clamping down on practitioners and instituted heavy fines for practicing medicine without a license.
So with an 1895 POD how could you make a pseudoscience like chiropractic healing popular or at the very least widespread in the US?