This file brings together the few pieces of information found on care, assistance to the sick and doctors in the history of Vierville.
Health in Vierville
Health in Vierville before the Revolution
(Extracts and adaptations of the Historical Notes on the Bessin, very little information)
"Like all the old parishes, Vierville found resources for his patients.
The poor had their "maladrie", a name still beared by a land that was once part of the seigneurial domain. (This land was part of the fief of Mauminot, a fief that included the mansion and lands of Lormel), according to the tribute paid to the King on May 11, 1724 by Isaac-François Canivet, lord of Mauminot)"
In the 19th century,?
A tradition speaks of a guerisseur in Vierville probably in the middle of the 19th century
Oral story collected at? And transcribed by hand by ?:
"The healing factor was my grandfather Marcellin Legrand.
He was a postman surely before 1910 because my cousin born in 1900 did not know him doing this job there. Then he was a field guard, then he no longer worked.
His wife ran a boarding house, where the tobacconist's store is located, there was a small grocery store and the buildings around the countryside road side and on the impasse side of Pavée Street contained the rooms. Others existed in the courtyard behind, but these rooms were destroyed. My great-grandmother was a tenant of the premises, I don't know who the owner was.
He treated and healed burns by blowing on them and muttering prayers, also sprains by imposing hands.
No one knew about the story of the big toe.
One day, according to Madame Dubois, her great-granddaughter like me, he would have cured of a urinary tract hemorrhage (it was called the trench and was deadly) a miller's horse that brought the flour to the baker. The beast had been taken a few km before Vierville, untied and called to die on the spot. The miller had continued his journey with ......."
First half of the 20th century, a doctor based in Trévières
Hospital in Bayeux, specialists and dental surgeons in Bayeux
Since 1950, 3 to 4 doctors, 3 nurses, 1 ambulance, installed in Trévières
Hospital and clinic in Bayeux,
University and Clinical Hospital Center in Caen