Indiana University School of Medicine - Caduceus Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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There has been many new administrative and faculty appointments including the deanship. As- sociated with these appointments have been new teaching and service facilities, and alterations in enrollment. Indianapolis itself is rearing its head as the American Sports Capital of the World as well as adding many city-wide improvements. These changes have all added a New Dimension to our medical, personal, social, and spiritual lives and will continue to stimulate and challenge us in the fu- ture. In 1816, during the time Corvisart and Laennec were developing the art of auscultation and the stethoscope, and Indiana was given its statehood, medical education was functioning as a precep- torial system. This practice varied from the state of the art to barbaric, depending on the preceptors abilities. As Dr. Burton Myers, M.D. accounts, All early medical colleges were poorly financed, and the survival of some, for that reason, was brief. Members of early faculties were inexperienced teachers and lecturers, and some of them ram- bled happily over the whole field of learning ... Accordingly, the difficulty which brought an un- timely end to many early medical colleges whose auspicious beginnings had been hailed with ela- tion, was the fact that these early doctors, like doctors of today, were individualists; they had had no experience with, or training in, team play, the collaboration necessary for the successful main- tenance of a medical college. Above.- Ward management has advanced with nearly all rooms now private or semi-private. Right: Dr. William Windram rounds on a Long Hospital ward in 1922. The head nurse is at the center desk.

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As many important developments were occur- ring worldwide including the daily use of the ther- mometer by Santorio and Wunderlich, and discov- ery of the role of microorganisms in disease by Pasteur and Koch, many advancements were also taking place in Indiana. Dr. J.S. Bobbs was credited for performing the first cholecystotomy in 1867. doctors greatly improved and localized their diag- nostic skills and began speaking of gallstones, renal disease, appendicitis, gastric and duodenal ulcers. Concurrently, medical courses and curricu- lum was vastly improving and expanding. During the century from 1806-1906. Indiana had chartered 24 medical schools with five major medical institutions emerging at the turn of the century: The Medical College of Indiana. Fort Wayne College of Medicine. Central College of Physicians and Surgeons. School of Medicine — Purdue University and Indiana University School of Medicine. In the period 1905-1907. sides were be- ing chosen with the State college of Physicians and Surgeons joining Indiana University.