Palmer Method returning to a more cursive style. The Palmer company stopped publishing in the 1980s. In radar engineering, a Palmer Scan is a scanning technique that produces a scanning beam by moving the main antenna and its feed in a circular motion. The name was derived from the looping circles practiced by students of the Palmer Method. Palmer Method The Palmer Method of penmanship instruction was developed and promoted by Austin Palmer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was largely created as a simplified style of the "Spencerian Method", which had been the major standardized system of handwriting
Daniel David Palmer Daniel David Palmer Daniel David Palmer or D.D. Palmer (March 7, 1845 – October 20, 1913) was a Canadian pioneer in alternative medicine who was the founder of chiropractic. An avid proponent of various forms of alternative medicine that eschew use of Western prescription medicine such as magnetic healing, Palmer was born in Ontario but emigrated to United States. Palmer believed that the human body had an ample supply of natural "healing power" transmitted through the nervous system. He suggested that if any one organ was affected by an illness, it merely must not be receiving its normal "nerve supply"