Rothschild Institute - Garden View

Paris (XIXth)—Institute (Rothschild Foundation) Garden View. E. V. (publisher). Posted in 1910.

During the First World War, the Adolphe de Rothschild hospital added the treatment of battlefield injuries to its portfolio. In 1921, Jacques Mawas (1885–1976), an Egyptian-born Jew and decorated veteran who had studied in Lyon before settling in Paris, joined the clinic, initially as director of laboratory research. His research focussed principally on the histology of the retina and choroid and ocular and adnexal tumours. Alongside his work for the foundation, he treated numerous high-profile patients including Claude Monet and Léon Blum. Following the German invasion, Mawas went into hiding and was eventually able to flee to Switzerland. He returned to Paris and resumed his career after the war. Since it first opened in 1905, the clinic has undergone massive expansion and the garden shown here has long since made way for several additional buildings. To this day, the clinic continues to function as an important site of ophthalmological and neurological treatment and research.