author
Joy Maxwell Loban
b. 1887
An early chiropractic writer, he is best remembered for a practical manual that helped shape how the field explained and taught its methods in the 1910s. His surviving work offers a window into a fast-growing corner of American health culture.
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
by Joy Maxwell Loban
About the author
Joy Maxwell Loban was an early 20th-century author associated with chiropractic literature. Library and public-domain records identify him as born in 1887, and he is chiefly known for Technic and Practice of Chiropractic, a work published in editions from 1915 and 1916 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg and major library catalogs.
In the book's preface, Loban presents himself less as an inventor than as a compiler and organizer, explaining that he wanted to condense existing professional knowledge into a practical form for students and practitioners. That makes his writing especially interesting today: it captures how chiropractic was being taught, systematized, and defended during its formative years.
Some genealogy-style sources list his life dates as March 21, 1887 to July 15, 1936, but because the strongest easily confirmed records here are bibliographic, it is safest to treat him primarily as an early chiropractic author whose reputation rests on that influential manual.