Hôpital de la Charité
The Hôpital de la Charité was a hospital in Paris that was opened in the 17th century by the Brothers of Mercy of St. John of God was founded and lasted until the 20th century.
history
The Brothers of Mercy, mostly surgeons and pharmacists , were leaders in health care in France in the early 17th century. In 1606 Maria de Medici arrived in France, in 1613 the buildings were constructed and blessed by the archbishop in July 1621. They trained pharmacists at the Hôpital de la Charité, and the facility was innovative in the field of surgery.
The Hôpital was adjacent to the Hôtel-Dieu (Paris) , one of the oldest hospitals in Europe. Therefore, there was always a certain rivalry between the two houses. For example, in the 1660s, the Brothers of Mercy were accused of spending money raised abroad instead of for the poor in France.
At the suggestion of Georges Mareschal , surgeon at the Hôpital, King Louis XV. (whose personal physician was Mareschal) 1724 the L'Ecole de Chirurgie as a separate school for surgery. In 1732 a gate was added by Robert de Cotte during a renovation.
Bedside education was introduced by Herman Boerhaave at Leiden University in the 18th century . Louis Desbois de Rochefort took over this practice at the Hôpital in 1780. The Académie nationale de Médecine resided there from 1850 to the beginning of the 19th century . Around 1935 it was demolished to make way for the new medical faculty.
literature
- Pierre-Louis Laget: Le développement de l'enseignement clinique à Paris et la création de l'école clinique intern de l'hôpital de la Charité. In: In Situ [En ligne], 17/2011, December 13, 2011. doi : 10.4000 / insitu.911
Individual evidence
- ^ David Hickey: Local Hospitals in Ancien Régime France: Rationalization, Resistance, Renewal, 1530-1789. McGill-Queen's Press, Montreal 1997. p. 163
- ^ Tim McHugh: Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France: The Crown, Urban Elites, and the Poor. Ashgate, Aldershot 2007. p. 78
- ↑ Harold Ellis: A History of Surgery. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001. p. 55
- ↑ As of 2011