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Medical
Schools in Indiana
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| Indiana's first state constitution
provided for the establishment of a state medical school in
Vincennes. It was not until 1903 that a serious
effort to establish a public medical school resulted in the
Indiana University
School of Medicine. |
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| The following is a list of the 24 medical schools
chartered in Indiana between 1806-1906: |
- 1833 The Christian College at New Albany, chartered
by John C. Bennett and Associates
- 1837-1838 Vincennes University Medical Department
- 1841-1856 La Porte University School of Medicine.
Became Indiana Medical College in 1846
- 1849-1854 Medical College of Evansville. Suspended
in 1854, reorganized in 1871, extinct in 1884
- 1849-1852 Indiana Central Medical College, Indianapolis.
The Medical Department of Asbury College (now DePauw
University)
- 1869-1878 Indiana Medical College, Indianapolis
- 1873-1909 Physiomedical College of Indiana, Indianapolis
- 1874-1878 College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Indiana, Indianapolis
- 1876-1883 The Medical College of Fort Wayne
- 1878-1905 The Medical College of Indiana, formed
by union of Indiana Medical College (1869-1878,
see above) and the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Indiana (1874-1878, see above), Indianapolis
- 1878-1888 Indiana College of Medicine and Midwifery,
Indianapolis
- 1879-1905 Central College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Indianapolis
- 1879-1905 Fort Wayne College of Medicine
- 1880-1890 Indiana Eclectic Medical College, Indianapolis
- 1881-1900 Curtis Physiomedical Institute, Marion
- 1882-1886 Hospital Medical College of Evansville
- 1883-1886 Beach Medical College, Indianapolis
- 1890-1894 Eclectic College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Indianapolis
- 1894-1897 American Medical College of Indianapolis
- 1897-1898 The University of Medicine, Indianapolis
- 1900-1908 Eclectic Medical College of Indiana,
Indianapolis
- 1901-1918 Valparaiso University School of Medicine.
Connection with the 1920-22 Chicago College of Medicine
and Surgery, Chicago, and later with the Hahnemann
Medical College of Chicago
- 1903- Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis,
Bloomington, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Lafayette,
Northwest (Gary), Notre Dame, Terre Haute
- 1905-1908 Indiana Medical College, The School
of Medicine of Purdue University, Lafayette
- 1906-1908 State College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Indianapolis
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(Taken from The History of
Medical Education in Indiana by Burton D. Myers, Indiana
University Press, Bloomington IN 1956)
Copyright
© 1996, Trustees of Indiana University. |
Sources of information
about the history of medicine in Indiana
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- Encyclopedia of Indianapolis edited by David
J.Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows, Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1994-various articles on medical topics
- "Practicing Medicine Along the Indiana Frontier"
by Nancy Eckerman in AB Bookman's Weekly
(April 13, 1992) v.89, pp. 39-44
- The History of Medical Education in Indiana
by Burton D. Myers Indiana University Press Bloomington IN,
1956
- A Medical History of the State of Indiana by
G. W. H.(General William Harrison) Kemper (image)
American Medical Association Press, 1911
- Indiana University, 1820-1920: Centennial Memorial Volume
Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University, 1921.
- One Hundred Years of Indiana Medicine 1849-1949. Published
in connection with the centennial of the Indiana State Medical
Association. Prepared under the directions of Charles N. Combs
and Edgar F. Kiser Dorothy Russo editor, {Indiana Medical
Association, Indianapolis?}, 1949
- The Midwest Pioneer and His Ills, Cures, & Doctors
by Madge E. Pickard and R. Carlyle Buley, Crawfordsville, Ind.,
R. E. Banta, 1945.
- "Ills, Cures, and Doctors" in The Old Northwest
Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley Indianapolis,
Indiana Historical Society, 1950.
- History of the Medical Campus, Indianapolis, Indiana
by Thurman B. Rice published serially January 1947-December
1948 in the Monthly Bulletin of the Indiana State Board
of Health
- One Hundred Years of Medicine: Indianapolis, 1820-1920
by Thurman B. Rice published serially in the January 1949-December
1952 in the Monthly Bulletin of the Indiana State Board
of Health
- The IU Physician Indiana University School of Medicine.
Indianapolis, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1978?
- The Journals of William A. Lindsay: an ordinary nineteenth
century physician's surgical cases edited by Katherine
Mandusic McDonell, Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society,
1989
- Indiana University Medical Center, 1903-1993
by Walter J. Daly New York, Newcomen Society of the United States,
1993.
- McDonell, Katherine Mandusic Medicine in Antebellum
Indiana: Conflict, Conservatism, and Change Indianapolis:
Indiana Historical Society, 1984
- Young, James Harvey "Two Gentlemen from Indiana"
in The Medical Messiahs Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1967. Pp.217-238.
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Where journal articles about the medical
history of Indiana have appeared
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- Indiana Medicine and its predecessors
- Journal of the Indiana Medical Association
- Transactions of the Indiana State Medical Society
- Indiana Magazine of History and its predecessor
- Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History
- Indiana Medical History Quarterly
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Please check the appropriate indexes for citations.
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Can you add to the record of Indiana's medical
history?
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- Information about any medical school in Indiana
- Information about 19th century physicians in Indiana. Currently
a selected biographies are available in the 19th
Century Indiana Physicians Biographical Information
a database administered by the Special Collections of the Ruth
Lilly Medical Library of the Indiana University School of Medicine.
- Quotes from diaries and letters about medicine in Indiana.
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For information about adding
to Indiana's medical history
or for more information, Contact:
Nancy L. Eckerman, M.L.S.
Special Collections Librarian
Ruth Lilly Medical Library
Indiana University School of Medicine
975 W. Walnut Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5121 |
Phone: 317-274-2076
Fax: 317-278-2349
Email: billings@iupui.edu |
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