Abstract
The book deals with the role the members of the Jesuite Order played as physicians and apothecaries. Despite the fact that the Jesuite Order was not explicitly a hospital order, several of its members contributed to the development of medicine (some of its missioners, among others).
Even more interesting question is the role of miraculous recoveries and anti-plague patron saints, and relations between ?natural? and ?spiritual? medicine. The authors deal with these questions in context of the two last plague epidemics in Bohemia (1679-1681, 1713-1715)