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At its inception the institution catered almost
exclusively to the poor, the doctors did not
charge fees and the tasks of nursing fell to the
nuns and so the first directors often had to put
,
their own money into it.
D it th diffi lti
th Clí i h d
f th
esp e e cu es, e n c a some o e
most prestigious physicians of the era, who in the
1920s converted the Clínic into a centre of
research excellence.