After the plague spared the city it came to be used as a charity hospital for the poor.

The charity hospital was founded in 1674, and still cares for the aged and infirm.

The building house classrooms for the medical school and became the site of the first charity hospital.

At a church charity hospital where he worked in his early years of practice, nobody was turned away for lack of ability to pay.

An observatory and a charity hospital were also established here in 1836.