Hôpital Cochin

48°50′13″N 2°20′25″E / 48.83694°N 2.34028°E / 48.83694; 2.34028OrganisationFundingPublic hospitalTypeGeneralLinksWebsitehopital-cochin-port-royal.aphp.frListsHospitals in France

The Hôpital Cochin (French pronunciation: [opital kɔʃɛ̃]) is a hospital of public assistance in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques Paris 14e. It houses the central burn treatment centre of the city. The Hôpital Cochin is a section of the Faculté de Médecine Paris-Cité. It commemorates Jean-Denis Cochin, curé of the parish of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas and founder of a hospital for the workers and poor of that quarter of Paris.^[1]

Since 1990, a biomedical research centre, the Institut Cochin, has been associated with the hospital. It was reorganised in 2002 to embrace genetic research, molecular biology and cellular biology, with a staff of about 600.^[2] It is part of both INSERM and CNRS, integrated with the Université Paris Cité.

In 2004 the Maison de Solenn, a shelter for adolescents, was opened within the hospital with the active support of Bernadette Chirac; its name commemorates Solenn Poivre d'Arvor.^[3]

History

Early in the morning of 30 May 1832, the mathematician Évariste Galois was shot in the abdomen during a duel at the age of 20 and died the following morning at ten o'clock in the Cochin hospital, probably of peritonitis, after refusing the offices of a priest. He was buried in a common grave in the Montparnasse Cemetery nearby.^[4]

George Orwell also had a stay at the hospital for a bout of "La Grippe" in March 1929. He describes it in his story "How the Poor Die".

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