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

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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.

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The remaining three schools united forming The School of Medicine of Purdue University. Over a controversial period of five months involving con- ferences propositions and counter-propositions, fi- nally on April 4, 1908, the consolidation of the Indi- ana and Purdue Medical programs was agreed upon and placed under the name and direction of Indiana University. The Trustees opted to maintain a complete four year course in Indy as well as a two year course in Bloomington. There were many alterations in the medical curriculum and structure before the current form was adopted. These in- cluded — offering the first year only in Bloomington and second through fourth years in Indianapolis, and accelerating the program to provide enough physicians during war times. Paralleling advancements in medical technol- ogy was the construction of Indiana's medical fa- cilities both in Bloomington and Indianapolis. At the southern campus, the Medical School Building completed in 1937, relieved the overcrowded quarters of Owen Hall. In Indianapolis, Robert W., Long Hospital was occupied in 1914 and provided 18 private and 88 ward beds; the Medical Science Building although gutted by fire in 1917, was re- placed some years later; Riley Hospital opened its doors in 1924 with space for 200 children; the Ro- tary Building was a convalescent home housing 60 persons; Coleman Hospital added room for 75 ob- stetrical and gynecological patients; Indianapolis General Hospital, an expansion of the old City Hos- pital opened in 1935 with 577 beds; and the badly needed Clinical Building was erected adjacent to Long Hospital and completed in 1938. Most recently, construction is adding New Di mensions with seemingly endless holes and de- tours at every corner. Planning for the 55 million dollar Riley Hospital addition begun in 1982, broke grounds in 1984, and is on time for occupancy to begin this summer. The Ronald McDonald House supplying short term housing for families of Riley Hospital patients was dedicated in 1982. Badly needed parking facilities are being completed, and one of the larger projects, a Clinical Research Center Building will begin this summer.