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Vintage Postcards of Indiana Health FacilitiesHealthcare in Indiana, continuedIndiana University Medical Center%u2014%u2014Indianapolis, Indiana%u2014%u2014Established 1903Indiana%u2019s longest lasting medical school. Construction began on thefirst buildings in 1914, and continues into the present.popular in the latter half of the 19th and first decades of the 20th centuries. Osteopathy was, and still is, a form of medical care that stresses treatment through manipulation and massage of bones, joints, and muscles. It was officially approved by the Indiana State Medical Society in 1905. It should be noted that Osteopathy is not to be confused with Chiropractic%u2014the latter being an alternative methodology that also uses manipulation and massage, with a particular focus is on the spine. Chiropractic doctors are not MDs, nor members of the state%u2019s medical society. Care of the Mentally Ill In many parts of the world, the early history of mental-health care is littered with tales of exorcisms, charms, tortures, burnings at the stake, banishments, and imprisonments. While not usually as dramatic%u2014or traumatic%u2014little or no treatment was also common. This situation led Indiana state legislators to authorize the construction of a facility for the insane in 1827. However, it wasn%u2019t until January 18, 1845%u2014eighteen years later%u2014that any money was actually budgeted for the purchase of a 100-acre site east of downtown Indianapolis, and the erection of a building. After three years of work, on November 21, 1848, the Indiana State Hospital for the Insane admitted its first 8 cases. In time, the insane asylum%u2019s population increased to the point where individuals deemed incurable were sent back to their home counties, to make room for new commitments. Regretfully, the patients%u2019 home counties were often ill-equipped to deal with them. This tragic situation changed in 1883, with the implementation of a new policy stipulating that no one would be released %u201cuntil