Until the 1840's, several professorships from the Faculty of Medicine were located in it and, later on, a small research laboratory was created in order to study the main diseases of the island, such as malaria and yellow fever.
Hasta la década de 1840, el hospital acogió varias cátedras de la Facultad de Medicina y, posteriormente, se creó un pequeño laboratorio de investigación para el estudio de las principales enfermedades de la isla como el paludismo y la fiebre amarilla.