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Vintage Postcards of Indiana Health FacilitiesMedical Building%u2014%u2014Indiana University %u2014%u2014Bloomington, Indiana%u2014%u2014Established 1936Used for pre-med courses, and renamed Meyers Hall in 1958 to honor Dean Burton D. Myers.College of New Albany was incorporated on January 23, 1833. Unfortunately it was nothing more than a racket scheme, which immediately started issuing fraudulent medical degrees under the fictitious name of the University of New Albany. The institution%u2019s founder, John Cook Bennett, lasted about a year at the helm, after which he went to Ohio and established another questionable medical school. The medical-education fiasco in New Albany was followed by what appears to have been an earnest effort at Vincennes University to establish its own Medical School in 1837. A few men enrolled for its first twelve-week course, at a cost of $80%u2014but the project lasted only one term. Between then and 1906, an astounding 25 schools of medicine were founded in Indiana. As a rule, their curriculums centered on conventional medicine, but also involved PhysioMedical studies, Midwifery, and Eclectic Medicine. With the exception of the Indiana University School of Medicine, most quickly faded away. An 1883 survey in Indiana counted %u201c5,376 doctors, of which 2,944 were %u2018regulars,%u2019 120 homeopaths, 480 eclectics, 106 physio-medical, and 1,721 made no claims whatsoever. Of these responders, 2,056 were not graduates of any school and 48 could not even write their names. Also there were 304 registered midwives.%u201d By 1898, Indiana%u2019s medical society had adopted regulations for membership, but to get enough votes for acceptance, qualifying standards were kept low. In fact, they were so low, it was estimated that, of the 4,000 licensed doctors, 400 were irregulars, quacks, incompetents, and charlatans. Obviously, there was a need for respectable, competent medical schools. Healthcare in Indiana, continued