Dentistry Dental problems were a common affliction of early settlers of Indiana. Casual references to dental ills abound in period newspapers… Read More »Dentistry
Dispensaries Dispensaries were precursors to hospital outpatient clinics and health clinics for the poor. During the Civil War civic leaders petitioned… Read More »Dispensaries
Livingston Dunlap (1799-Sept. 10, 1862). Livingston Dunlap was a prominent physician who was the first major advocate of a city hospital. A… Read More »Livingston Dunlap
Joseph Rilus Eastman (Apr. 18, 1872-Nov. 29, 1942). Born in Brownsburg, Indiana, the son of Joseph Eastman, a prominent early surgeon in Indiana,… Read More »Joseph Rilus Eastman
George F. Edenharter (June 13, 1857-Dec. 6, 1923). Born of German parents and educated in Ohio, George F. Edenharter came to Indianapolis in… Read More »George F. Edenharter
Samuel A. Elbert (Apr. 9, 1832-July 15, 1902). Samuel A. Elbert was the first African American in Indiana to receive a medical degree.… Read More »Samuel A. Elbert
Eli Lilly and Company Eli Lilly and Company was founded on May 10, 1876, by Civil War veteran . Lilly began the company out… Read More »Eli Lilly and Company
Charles Phillips Emerson (Sept. 4, 1872-Sept. 26, 1938). Physician, medical textbook author, and long-time dean of medicine at Indiana University, Charles Phillips Emerson… Read More »Charles Phillips Emerson
Eugenics In 1907 Indiana Governor Frank Hanly signed the Indiana Sterilization Law, which is widely considered the first eugenics sterilization legislation… Read More »Eugenics
John Evans (Mar. 9, 1814-July 3, 1897). Evans was born in Warren County, Ohio, to Quaker parents. He attended the Hicksite school… Read More »John Evans
