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TIPPECANOE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
The Tippecanoe County Medical Society:
A Story that Begins in 1847
Events and Issues that Have Affected the Society Over the Last 2 Centuries
1800-1839:
1816 Indiana becomes 19th State
1820 Indiana University Founded
1825 City of Lafayette Founded; 1826 Tippecanoe County with Lafayette as County Seat Est.
1837 Vincennes University Medical Dept. - First MD Degree Granted
1840-1859:
1841 LaPorte University School of Medicine
1846 War with Mexico (Texas and California Annexation)
1847 American Medical Association Founded
1847 Medical Society of the Town of Lafayette formed, changed to Tippecanoe County
Medical Society (TCMS)
1848 TCMS Disbanded
1848 Mexico Surrendered
1848 William Worrell Mayo became a medical student at Indiana Medical College
1849 Indiana State Medical Society Formed
1851 William Worrell Mayo, M.D., established medical practice in Lafayette, Indiana
1855 William Worrell Mayo, M.D., left Lafayette, IN to reestablish in Minnesota
1860-1879:
1861 MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, TX left the Union and formed the "Confederate States of America"
1861 Civil War began on April 12th
1865 Civil War ended in April
1866 Tippecanoe County Medical Society (TCMS) Revived
1869 Purdue University Founded
1869 Lafayette "Home for the Friendless" established at 16th & Howell Street. This
would later be known as Home Hospital.
1870 Tippecanoe County Medical Society (TCMS) Disbanded (2nd Time)
1875 Six Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration from Germany began a practice of caring
(initially establishing a hospital in a former store building at 10th & Cincinnati Streets)
1877 Tippecanoe County Medical Society (TCMS) Revived (2nd Time)
1879 St. Elizabeth Hospital established at 14th & Hartford Streets. First case, Jan. 3rd Senility
1879 Louis Pasteur: Demonstrated the value of vacciations to protect sheep against Anthrax
1880-1899:
1880 First Medical Staff at St. Elizabeth Hospital
1882 Arnett Campbell (A.C.) Arnett born, Lafayette, IN
1883 St. Elizabeth Chapel established
1889 Dr. W.M. J. Mayo begins Family Practice in Rochester, MN with father and brother
1891 Indiana State Board of Health established
1895 Lafayette Home changes name to Lafayette Home Hospital
1896 Indiana State Soldier's Home established
1897 Indiana Medical Practice Act passed (created the Indiana State Board of Medial Registration
and Examination
1898 USS Maine Explosion, Havana Harbor (The US attacked Spanish Fleet in Manila Bay followed
by defeat of Spanish on the Philippine Islands and in Cuba. Spain surrendered.
1898 Lafayette Home Hospital -- Land purchase completed for land on South Street, Lafayette
1899 Lafayette Home Hospital School of Nursing established
1900-1939
1900 Mayo Clinic founded in Rochester, MN
1901 Home Hospital begins in Kile Building, first case Tuberculosis
1904 Indiana University School of Medicine established/admitted to membership AAMC
1905 Indiana Medical College of Purdue School of Medicine created - a union of The Medical
College of Indiana, The Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Ft. Wayne
College of Physicians
1907 A.C. Arnett graduated from the Indiana Medical College of Purdue School of Medicine with
Internship at St. Elizabeth Hospital (sponsor Dr. George Beesley)
1917 U.S.S. Housatonic Torpedoed/Sunk and United Stated Declares was on Germany
1918 Armistice World War I (Nov 11)
1919 Home Hospital becomes a 4 story building
1922 Arnett-Crockett Clinic established in Schultz Building 4th floor
1928 Arnett Clinic moved to 8th & Ferry Street
1934 Hitler - Becomes Dictator Followed by Rearmament of Germany
1938 Germany - Invaded and Annexed Austria
1938 Wabash Valley Hospital established (formerly 7th Day Adventist for "Alcohol, Epilepsy,
& Other Nervous Disorders Institute" and later known as "Norway of Indianapolis."
1940-1959
1940 First Peace-Time Draft
1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1945 Victory in Europe (May 8) - Japanese surrender (Sept 5) - United Nations Formed (Oct 24)
1947 Purdue University Bleachers collapse (250 injured; 110 hospitalized; 3 deaths)
1950 Korean War - United States entered was as UN Forces Doctor's Draft Law goes into effect
1953 Armistice Korean War (July 27)
1958 Purdue University Student Hosptial established
1960 - 1979
1962 Arnett Clinic - New Building at 2600 Greenbush (24 physicians)
1962 St. Elizazbeth addition built
1963 Home Hospital's Kile Building becomes ICU
1964 United States Entered Vietnam War
1969 Apollo 11 Landed on the Moon and Purdue University graduation Neil Alden Armstrong
First to Walk on Moon
1971 First License for Radio - Telephone for Physicians (with base at Home Hospital)
1973 Home Hospital establishes Patient Care Wing
1975 South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam (April 30th)
1975 St. Elizabeth establishes new surgery, ICU, x-ray department
1975 Tippecanoe County Morgue established
1976 Indiana Soldier's Home renamed Indiana Veterans' Home
1976 Tippecanoe Emergency Ambulance Service established
1980-1999
1983 Dr. John Knote of TCMS named President ISMA
1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait
1991 United States Invasion of Iraq (Desert Storm)
1998 TCMS Monthly mtgs changed to Quarterly
1999 Merger of Lafayette Home Hospital & St. Elizabeth Hospitals into one unified hospital
System known as Greater Lafayette Health Services
2000-Present
2003 United States second invasion of Iraq
2003 Sisters of St. Francis Health Services, Inc. become sole owners of Greater Lafayette Health
Services (GLHS)
2007 GLHS renamed St. Elizabeth Regional Health
2008 Clarian Arnett Health Opens New Hospital as IU Health Arnett (a merger of Methodist
Hospital, Riley Hospital for Children and Indiana University Hospital)
2010 Home Hospital discharges its final patient on February 25. All medical operations
moved to Franciscan St. Elizabeth Health - Lafayette East.
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