Description: Universum10_46 1843 Meyer print SALPETRIERE HOSPITAL, PARIS, FRANCE, #46 Nice print titled La Salpetriere in Paris, from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring, approx. page size 25.5 x 18 cm, approx. image size is 14.5 x 9.5 cm. Print was published in Germany in Meyer's Universum by Bibliographic Institute Hildburghausen. Pitié-Salpetriere Hospital The Pitié-Salpetriere Hospital (Groupe hospitalier de la Pitié-Salpétriere) is a world-renowned teaching hospital located in Paris, France. Part of the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, it is one of Europe's largest hospitals. History The Salpetriere was originally a gunpowder factory ("salpetre" being a constituent of gunpowder), but was converted to a dumping ground for the poor of Paris. It served as a prison for prostitutes, and a holding place for the mentally disabled, criminally insane, epileptics, and the poor; it was also notable for its famous population of rats. In 1656, Louis XIV charged the architect Libéral Bruant to build a hospital on the location of the factory, founding the Hospice de la Salpetriere. The building was expanded in 1684. By the eve of the Revolution, it had become the world's largest hospital, with a capacity of 10,000 patients plus 300 prisoners, largely prostitutes swept from the streets of Paris. From La Salpetriere they were paired with convicts and forcibly expatriated to New France. During the September massacres of 1792, the Salpetriere was stormed on the night of 3/4 September by a mob from the impoverished working-class district of the Faubourg Saint-Marcel, with the avowed intention of releasing the detained street-girls; 134 of the prostitutes were released; twenty-five madwomen were less fortunate and were dragged, some still in their chains, into the streets and murdered. Madame Roland, a Girondin supporter of the Revolution in its first liberalising stages, recorded in her Memoirs that the Revolution "has been stained by villains and become hideous". In the first half of the 19th century, the first humanitarian reforms in the treatment of the violently insane were initiated here by Philippe Pinel, friend of the Encyclopédistes; his sculptural monument stands before the main entrance in Place Marie-Curie, Boulevard de L'Hôpital. Later, when Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot took over the department, the Salpetriere became world famous as a psychiatric centre. Charcot is often credited as the founder of modern neurology. His teaching activities on the Salpetriere's wards helped to elucidate the natural history and pathophysiology of many human illnesses including neurosyphilis, epilepsy, and stroke. Students came from all over Europe to listen to Charcot's lectures. Among them was a young student by the name of Sigmund Freud. The Pitié-Salpetriere is now a general teaching hospital with departments focusing on most major medical specialities. Numerous celebrities have been treated at the Salpetriere, including Michael Schumacher, Ronaldo, Prince Rainier of Monaco, Alain Delon and Gerard Depardieu. Former president Jacques Chirac had a pacemaker fitted at the Salpetriere in 2008. Diana, Princess of Wales died in the Salpetriere, as well as Josephine Baker.
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Style: Realism
Type: Print
Subject: Paris
Original/Reproduction: Original Print
Print Type: Engraving
Date of Creation: 1800-1899
Size Type/ Largest Dimension: Small (Up to 14'')
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Year of Production: 1843
