- Hôpital de La Grave
The Hôpital de La Grave is a
hospital situated in the Saint-Cyprien quartier ofToulouse in Southwest France on the bank left of theGaronne . Taking up six hectares (three times the size of theHôtel-Dieu ), La Grave was the second large hospital establishment and primary maternal care center of Toulouse during much of the20th century until the CHU of Rangueil was built. It is named for the strike which took place where it was originally built along the Garonne.History
Beginnings
The original "Hôpital de La Grave" was first mentioned in a 1197 charter of
Raymond IV . Today, nothing remains of the original hospital. [ [http://www.chu-toulouse.fr/-histoire-de-la-grave-#art410 « La Grave » : un Hôpital "primitif" peu connu] . Histoire de La Grave. Website of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse. Access date: 9-19-2008 (Fr)]Plague years
*During the periods in which the plagues ravaged Toulouse, the Hôpital de La Grave was used care for those afflicted with the disease, isolating them from the beggers, injured and disabled. The hospital ended up being enlarged to cope with the mounting epidemic and underwent a name change, taking the name Saint-Sébastien in order to invoke his help in 1508-1514. [ [http://www.chu-toulouse.fr/-histoire-de-la-grave-#art412 La peste et la 1ère restructuration du XIVème siècle à la 1ère moitié du XVIIème siècle] . Histoire de La Grave. Website of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse. Access date: 9-19-2008 (Fr)]
*In 1628 the Plague reoccurred in the city, worse than ever before. The elites, even many of the physicians began fleeing the town. The situation deteriorated to the point that
Capitoul surgeons came to assist with treating the patients. Eventually in July the next year every plague patient in the hospital died and it was disinfected. [ [http://www.chu-toulouse.fr/-histoire-de-la-grave-#art412 La peste et la 1ère restructuration du XIVème siècle à la 1ère moitié du XVIIème siècle] . Histoire de La Grave. Website of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse. Access date: 9-19-2008 (Fr)]Rebirth
The hospital was transitioned into a place to confine and care for the city's poor beginning on 26 March 1647. [Schneider, Robert Alan. Public Life in Toulouse, 1463-1789. Cornell University Press, 1989. ISBN 0801421918, 9780801421914 p. 197. On http://books.google.com/ Accessed 19 September 2008] The name was changed to Toulouse l’Hôpital Général Saint-Joseph de La Grave. [ [http://www.chu-toulouse.fr/-histoire-de-la-grave-#art413 Le Grand Renfermement » - seconde moitié du XVIIème siècle] Histoire de La Grave. Website of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse. Access date: 9-20-2008 (Fr)] A
Papal Bull granted approval in 1658. [Schneider, Robert Alan. Public Life in Toulouse, 1463-1789. Cornell University Press, 1989. ISBN 0801421918, 9780801421914 p. 197. On http://books.google.com/ Accessed 19 September 2008]References
"Based on the article in the French Wikipedia."
Sources
* [http://www.chu-toulouse.fr/spip.php?rubrique256 Histoire de La Grave] (Fr)
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