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pose of the organization is to bring together women engaged in various lines of work, and to give their united influence to general lines upon which all can agree. The Council has demonstrated that it can accomplish enter- prises far beyond the power of any single society. It has impressed its in- fluence on the political as well as the social life of the city and state to such a degree that some of the most wholesome laws now on our statute books are the results of its efforts. The meetings of the Council are held monthly when papers are read by some notable person on subjects of general interest followed by general discussion. Officers: Flora Wulschner, president; Mrs. S. E. Perkins, recording secretary; Hester M. McClung, corresponding sec- retary; Mrs. Roscoe O. Hawkins, treasurer.
Matinee Musicale, was organized in November, 1877, with a charter mem- bership of nine music loving women. To their zeal the society owes its perma- nent organization. The club meets at the Propylæum where it receives its members and guests on alternate Wednesdays, from October to May inclu- sive. The plan of work of the Musicale has been solicited and copied by many sister societies in and beyond the state, and the programs have in- creased in breadth and interest with each succeeding year. It is the second oldest women's musical club in the United States, and was one of five ama- teur societies to receive a special diploma of honor from the Columbian Ex- position of 1893. From two to four recitals are given each year by artists of renown free to all members, active, associate and student. The membership. in 1897, numbers 275. The following are the officers: Carrie F. Robertson. president, to whose executive ability and untiring energy the present high stand - ing of the club is due, has been president for thirteen years. Other officer> are : Mary W. Whittier, vice-president; Harriett K. Lynn, secretary; Mary .I. Jenckes, corresponding secretary; Adaline N. Branham, treasurer; Sarah T. Meigs, librarian; Gertrude C. Jameson, chairman of reception committee.
The Contemporary Club, one of the leading literary societies of the city, was organized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sewall June 27, 1890. Its mem- bership is open to men and women on equal terms, and its object is to con- sider and discuss philosophical, religious, social, political, economical, æs- thetic, scientific, literary, or other questions, in a catholic spirit, and in gen- eral to take advantage of all opportunities for information and culture that may from time to time come within its reach. The meetings of the club are of a social character,and are held in the Propylæum. The membership, num- bering some two hundred, is drawn from among citizens of known social qualities and intellectual interests. Among those who have addressed the club during the last five years are many of the most brilliant thinkers in the fields of science, philosophy and literature. Much is due to the valuable suggestions of Mr. Sewall, in his four years' service as secretary, for the ex- ceptional success of the club. Officers: John L. Griffiths, president: Noble C. Butler, Demarcus C. Brown and Edward Daniels. vice-presidents; George T. Porter, secretary; Dr. Charles E. Ferguson, treasurer.
Indianapolis Woman's Club (Literary), was founded in IS75, with seven
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charter members. Its membership is limited to 100. The regular meetings are held in the east parlor of the Propylaum on the first and third Fridays of each month, except the third Friday of June, the Fridays of July, Au- gust, and September. The president is Mrs. H. D. Pierce.
Indiana School of Art was established in 1889 and reorganized May, 1891. The school has an adequate collection of casts. and also a collection of draw- ings from old masters. It is prepared to offer excellent facilities in drawing and painting from life and the antique. The course of study in the school is aimed to be as near that of the best academies of the old world as circum- stances will allow, and the training such as thoroughly to ground the pupils in drawing and painting, and to fit them to carry on their work either at home or abroad. Students may enter at any time, and will be assigned to classes according to their experience and accomplishments.
BRENNEKE ACADEMY.
The Brenneke Academy, corner of North and Illinois streets, was built in 1895, by professor D. B. Brenneke. The building is a three story brick and stone structure, 60 by 105 feet. It is especially designed and devoted to the art of dancing, and no city in the country has a building better adapted for the purposes for which it has been specially erected. It also affords special facilities for social gatherings, having an assembly hall 57 by 76, with a gallery sufficiently commodious to accommodate 300 spectators, and a ban- quiet hall 37 by 57 feet. The building is also equipped with a well furnished kitchen, and all accessories necessary for banquets and other social func- tions. Professor Brenneke came to this city in 1SS2, and has maintained the foremost position as an instructor of dancing during that period.
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Indianapolis Mænnerchor was organized in 1854 by Gottfried Recker. Nicholaus Jose and several other German citizens. It has given in concerts and in courses of instruction that have great influence the best works of Ger- man composers, and it has been potent in developing the love for music in this community. Its membership is composed of active members who are musicians or students, and others to whom the social features of the organiza- tion appeal. The present musical director is Alexander Ernestinoff. There are other musical organizations, prominent among which are the Indianapo- lis Liederkranz and the Indianapolis Choral Union and several glee clubs.
Indianapolis Literary Club is the foremost organization of its character, and its membership embraces many of the most prominent citizens of the city. Rev. M. L. Haines is president; Louis Howland, secretary, and John N. Hurty, treasurer of the club. Meetings are held every week in Plymouth Church building.
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Fortnightly Club (Literary), meets every other Tuesday at the Propy- læum. Elizabeth Dye is president.
Century Club is one of the important literary organizations of our city. Meetings are held every Tuesday in the Denison Hotel. Ernest P. Bicknell is president, and IIerbert W. Foltz, secretary.
Over the Tea Cups, a social club of importance, meets weekly at SES N. Pennsylvania street. Mrs. D. W. Marmon is president.
The Portfolio Club is devoted to the cultivation of art, music and litera- ture, meets every other week at the School of Music. Herbert W. Foltz is secretary.
The Indianapolis Press Club is an organization whose membership em- braces many bright men and women engaged in newspaper and other literary work. Arthur C. White is president, and Laura A. Smith secretary of the club.
Political Clubs and Debating Societies are numerous, prominent among which are the Columbia and Marion Clubs (Republican), and Hendricks Club (Democratic.) .
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The Joseph Eastman Sanitarium, the first to be established in the State, and one of the most complete institutions in the country for the treatment of the diseases of women and abdominal surgery, was established by Dr. Joseph Eastman in 1885.
The present model edifice, which is solely and entirely devoted to the uses of the sanitarium, was erected in 1894, at a cost of nearly $50,000. It is equipped throughout with every modern convenience, and all the neces- sary appliances and apparatus for the successful treatment of the diseases of women. The sanitarium has accommodation for the treatment of 60 patients,
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and is reputed to have one of the finest private operating rooms in the coun- try. Additional buildings will be erected during the coming year.
Dr. Joseph Eastman, the founder and present head of the sanitarium, is recognized as one of the leading American gynecologists. He was born in Fulton county, New York, January 29, 1842. His early education was con- fined to the limited advantages of winter schools and night study, and before the age of eighteen became a proficient blacksmith, working three years at that trade.
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seventh New York volunteers, went to the front and took part in four bat- tles. Stricken with typhoid-malarial fever after the battle of Williamsburg, he was sent to the Mt. Pleasant Hospital, Washington, D. C. After his re- covery he was placed on light duty, and afterward discharged from the regi- ment and appointed hospital steward in the U. S. army. While thus engaged for three years he attended three courses of lectures at the University of Georgetown, where he was graduated M. D. in 1865. He then passed the army examination and was commissioned assistant surgeon U. S. volun- teers, and served in this capacity until mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., in May, 1866. Soon after this he located at Brownsburg, Ind., where he en- gaged in general practice for seven years. His medical education was sup- plemented by attending Bellevue Hospital Medical College, where he was again graduated in 1871. He became demonstrator of anatomy in the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis in 1875, and was soon after appointed consulting surgeon to the City Hospital, which position he held for nine years, delivering lectures on clinical surgery during that time. He was the assistant of Dr. Parvin, the distinguished obstetrician and gynecologist, for eight years. .
In 1879 he was one of the original organizers of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons of Indianapolis, and accepted the chair of anatomy and clinical surgery. After having taught anatomy in the two colleges for seven years, a special chair was established in the last-named institution- that of diseases of women and abdominal surgery-which he has held ever since.
For the past six years he has been president of this college. Since ISS6, Dr. Eastman has limited his practice to the diseases of women and ab- dominal surgery. During this practice he has opened the abdominal cavity more than thirteen hundred times, and is the only American surgeon who has ever operated for extra-uterine pregnancy by dissecting out the sack which contained the child, saving both the life of the infant and the mother. His operations are referred to in many of the standard text books, and have been described and discussed in all the leading European and American medical and surgical journals. He has been a liberal contributor to the literature on medical and surgical science, which has been widely translated in Germany and France. Dr. Eastman has originated and perfected many instruments for use in abdominal surgery and diseases of women, which are used by the more advanced gynecologists of Berlin, Vienna, and the great hospitals throughout Europe. In 1891, as recognition of his eminent skill and pro- fessional merit, the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Wabash College. He was elected president of the Western Surgical and Gynecologi- cal Association, December 29, 1896. Associated with Dr. Eastman are his two sons, Thomas B. Eastman, graduate of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Indianapolis. and the Post-Graduate Medical Schools of New York and Chicago, who is now in London, Eng., and Joseph R. East - man, a student in the University of Berlin, Germany.
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Fletcher's Sanitarium, was established by Dr. W. B. Fletcher in 1888. for the treatment of mental and nervous diseases of women and was first located in North Pennsylvania street. The present institution is located at 124 North Alabama street and is equipped with the latest and most improved electrical and other appliances for the treatment of all nervous disorders of women.
Since establishing a private sanatarium Dr. Fletcher has had associated with him in the business, Mary A. Spink, M. D., who has full control of the female patients. Dr. Spink has had 12 years' experience in the treat-
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ment of insane women, and has shown by her works what a woman of cour- age and possessed of a gentle and refining influence can accomplish toward soothing and restoring her sex from its greatest affliction. Dr. Spink is a member of the Board of State Charities and the state and local medical societies. It is a rule of the sanitarium to accept acute cases only in rare in- stances. The percentage of cures from this institution have been notably greater than that of any similar sanitarium in the country. Each patient is furnished with a separate room and special attendant, with meals served in the room. The fee is from $60 to $150 per month. Special arrangements are
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made with guardians for the treatment of chronic cases supposed to be incur- able, at low rates by the year.
Dr. Fletcher was born in Indianapolis, August 18, 1837. His father, Calvin Fletcher, was one of the earliest settlers, locating here in 1821, before the settlement had become dignified by a place on the map. He was a lawyer and at once became prominent, not only in his profession, but foremost also in the work to advance civilizing influences, notably, in establishing a public school system and the introduction of the law establishing township libraries in every township in Indiana.
Dr. Fletcher's school career began in a little log 'school house that was located at the spot now marked by the intersection of South and New Jersey streets; afterwards in the old seminary then located in the University Park. In 1855 he studied under Agassiz and Tenny, botany, zoology and other natural sciences and the study of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York from 1856-9, graduating in 1859. He returned to Indianapolis and remained until 1861 when he was first among those to respond to the call for troops. His company was the Sixth Indiana, and he was detailed for duty on the staff of General T. A. Morris, and later trans- ferred to the staff of General J. J. Reynolds. His war experience was of a brief but thrilling order and before his first year's service he was captured, brought in irons before General Robert E. Lee, confined in prison, made two attempts at escape, was wounded in October, 1861, was tried, court-martialed, con- demned to death and ordered to execution. He was fortunately reprieved by order of General Lee pending an investigation, and by a providential occur- ence and through the blunder of the notorius Captain Wirtz, his identity was lost to the confederates as a special prisoner. He was paroled and placed in charge of the gangrene hospital in Richmond, and in March, 1862, was paroled from the service, but during the entire war gave his best services to the Sanitary Commission, the State or the general government. In 1866-7 Dr. Fletcher visited Europe and studied in the hospitals of London, Paris, Glasgow and Dublin. For many years he has been professor of various departments of the Indiana Medical College and is now professor of mental diseases in the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the State Medical Society, the New York Medico-Legal Society and of the State Microscopical Society of which he was the first president. Ile established the City Dispensary in IS70, and was for many years consulting physician of the City and St. Vin- cent hospitals. In ISS2 he was elected State Senator from this county and in 1883 was made superintendent of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane. During his administration the institution witnessed great progress, the most notable innovation being the abolishment of restraint as a means of treating insanity. He was the first superintendent to appoint a woman physician to have charge of the female patients. He has been a liberal con- tributor to the literature on the treatment of the insane and other branches of medical science.
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Runnels's Private Hospital was established in 1890 by O. S. Runnels, A. M., M. D., 276 North Illinois street, to meet the requirements of the best services attainable in surgical and gynecological practice. After an exten- sive surgical experience of twenty years under the most favorable conditions possible in the various public hospitals, hotels and homes, Dr. Runnels recog- nized the need of better service than could be thus commanded. Finding it impossible to secure the best results in the unfavorable environment of the old order, the service was transferred to the private hospital where everything has been specialized to the highest degree.
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The building itself, very commodious, pleasantly situated, and easily acces- sible, has been made to conformi in all its appointments to the demands of absolute asepsis. It is surgically clean and entirely free from the odors and hospital suggestions incident to large institutions, especial care being taken to combine home comforts and enjoyments with the requirements of science.
All the nurses are graduates of the best training schools and selected because of their special adaptation to the work of nursing. They have not the ac - quirements of the schools merely, but that intuitive touch and tenderness given to the true nurse at birth, and which is such an essential feature of ac- ceptable service. Special attention is paid to the abundant provision of the best food; to good cooking and a liberal table as the patient becomes able to enjoy it: The starvation diet of most hospitals is condemned. The "build- ing up" policy adopted by Dr. Runnels is believed to be one of the chief rea- sons for the quick and thorough recovery of his patients. Every effort is made to restore the patient without resort to surgery. Homeopathic medi-
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cation, massage, electricity, the "rest cure" and every means for recuperation are employed to their full extent, thus making conservative work a specialty. Dr. Runnels avoids the knife if possible, believing that all other reasonable means should be exhausted first. But his natural aptitude, extensive observa- tion and long experience in surgical practice have placed him in the front rank of the best surgeons. He does all the operating himself and is in daily attendance. All abdominal, pelvic, rectal and nutritional diseases are honestly and skillfully treated by the most approved methods.
The hospital has a capacity for twenty patients, and plans are perfected for its enlargement. Visiting physicians are always welcome and correspond- ence receives prompt attention.
Dr. O. S. Runnels was born at Fredonia, Ohio, in 1847: was educated a+ Oberlin College, Ohio, and at the Cleveland Homeopathic College-his doctor's degree bearing date 1871. Ile immediately engaged in general prac- tice in Indianapolis, where he speedily attained distinction, and has since been surpassed by none in the extent and high character of his work. Excelling as an obstetrician he at once entered upon the practice of gynecology, which he has now followed as a specialty for over twenty years. He has practiced pelvic and abdominal surgery extensively, and has a percentage of successful cures unsurpassed by the best operators. He has from the first kept in touch with the best professional minds of the world, having the largest and choicest physician's library in Indiana, and taking regularly twenty-five of the best medical journals published. In addition so this he has supplemented his education by special courses of post-graduate work in Chicago, Philadelphiu, New York and Boston, and in Edinburgh, Birmingham, London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin. He has been a voluminous contributor to the medical societies and periodicals, and is at the present time writing a book entitled "Surgical Diseases of the Uterus, Tubes and Ovaries." He is a member and ex-president of the American Institute of Homeopathy; president of the American Association of Orificial Surgeons; member and ex-president of the Indiana Institute of Homeopathy; American Association for the Advance- ment of Science; American Public Health Association; American Society of Electro-Therapeutists: honorary member of the Massachusetts Surgical and Gynecological Society, member honorary and vice-president of the World's Homeopathic Congress, Basel, Switzerland; and member of the In- dianapolis Literary Club. Oberlin College in 1894 conferred upon Dr. Run- nels the honorary degree of Master of Arts.
The Fox & Garhart Specialty Company, manufacturers of dentists' special- ties, was incorporated in May, 1893. The offices and laboratory are located in the old library building, in Pennsylvania street. The principal product is the manufacture of Iligh Standard Gold White Alloy.
Dr. A. R. White, manufacturer of proprietary medicines, began business in 1876. He manufactures White's Pulmonaria and Dandelion Alterative, which have a large sale throughout the country. The laboratory and offices are located in his building, in South Meridian street.
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Dr. L. H. Dunning's Sanitarium was established in May, 1892, for the treatment of diseases of women and the practice of abdominal surgery. It is located at the corner of Alabama and Michigan streets, in the handsome and commodius residence which the doctor purchased and fitted with all the necessary requirements for the proper treatment of the classes of cases to which it is limited. In this respect its appointments are the equal of the best sanitariums in the land. It is the aim of the management to make the surroundings as homelike as possible with the proper adherence at all times to sanitary laws and antiseptic requirements. The sanitarium can now accommodate about twenty patients, but improvements are in contemplation to increase its facilities. Since its establishment, Dr.Dunning has found it nec- essary to remodel and enlarge the sanitarium to meet the demands made upon it
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Dr. Leham H. Dunning is a native of Michigan and was born at Edwards- burgh in that state in 1850. He was educated in the Edwardsburgh high school, studied medicine in the University of Buffalo, and completed his course in the Rush Medical College, of Chicago, where he graduated with honor in January, 1872. He began his practice in Troy, Michigan, where he was for a time District Superintendent of Instruction. He was appointed correspondent of the Michigan Board of Health, and while filling these duties acquired his first experience as a writer on medical and surgical sub- jects which have since proven of great value to the profession and himself. In 1878 he moved to South Bend, Ind., where he enjoyed a wide and lucrative
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practice. His contributions to medical literature began in Troy, Michigan, were continued here and soon gained for him a national reputation. He took several special courses in the Post Graduate Medical School and Polyclinic of New York and supplemented these courses by studying in the hospitals of London and Vienna during his trip abroad. On his return to this country, at the request of the faculty of The Medical College of Indiana, he moved to this city, accepted the position of Adjunct Professor of Diseases of Women and practiced his profession here with a special reference to gynecological and abdominal surgery. On the death of Dr. T. B. Harvey, who had filled the chair of Diseases of Women in The Medical College of Indiana for twenty years, Dr. Dunning was elected as his successor. Ile is consulting gynecol- ogist in the City Hospital and the City Dispensary and Deaconess' Home. He is a member of the Marion County Medical Society, Indiana State Medi- cal Society, and fellow of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
DR. LOUIS BURCKHARDT'S LYING-IN HOSPITAL.
Indianapolis Lying-In Hospital was established in October, IS94, by Dr. Louis Burckhardt for the convenience and accommodation of women who wished to be confined away from home. and requiring the care of a skillful physician and trained nurses. The hospital is located at the corner of Ala- bama and McCarty streets, and is admirably equipped for the particular pur- pose for which it is designed. The hospital has accommodation for eight patients, with a corps of trained nurses.
Dr. Louis Burckhardt came to this city in May, 1893, and is a graduate of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where he received his medical educa- tion. He studied in the hospitals of Freiburg, Strassburg, Zurich, Leipzig,
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