Medical Research In the late 1800s, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch led successful efforts by European scientists to identify specific disease organisms,… Read More »Medical Research
Medical Schools Medicine was taught by the preceptor (apprenticeship) system in Indiana throughout most of the 19th century. The state’s first successful… Read More »Medical Schools
Doris Honig Merritt (July 16, 1923-April 12, 2022). Born in New York City, Doris Merritt was the daughter of Haron and Lillian Honig.… Read More »Doris Honig Merritt
Harvey Nathaniel Middleton (Feb. 15, 1895-Mar. 18, 1978). Born in Denmark, South Carolina, Middleton graduated from Benedict College in 1919. After a brief… Read More »Harvey Nathaniel Middleton
Samuel Grant Mitchell (1783-1837). Samuel Grant Mitchell relocated to Indianapolis in April 1821. He was the first physician to practice medicine in the… Read More »Samuel Grant Mitchell
Mortality And Morbidity The Indianapolis Board of Health began publishing annual health statistics, including statistics on death and disease, in the 1890s. Such… Read More »Mortality And Morbidity
Charles Wesley Myers (Dec. 16, 1890-May 13, 1985). Born in Marysville, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine… Read More »Charles Wesley Myers
National Surgical Institute Dr. H. R. Allen established the National Surgical Institute in Indianapolis in 1858. The institute was the first of its… Read More »National Surgical Institute
Neuronhurst In 1888 Dr. William Fletcher, son of Indianapolis pioneer opened W. B. Fletcher’s Sanitorium (later renamed Neuronhurst), the first private… Read More »Neuronhurst
Norways Hospital In 1898, Norways Sanitarium became the second private psychiatric hospital established in Indianapolis. The hospital’s name, which was later changed… Read More »Norways Hospital
