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.