title: Dominicans and balneology in the Bohemia and surrounding countries (1650 - 1720).
abstract: The paper tackles the question of balneological treatment available for the members of the Order of Preachers in Central Europe between 1650 and 1720. I took advantage of a strict record keeping procedure within the Dominican order, which required that all members obtain a written permission from the Father Provincial before taking any journey beyond local boundaries. As all the records were kept in so called "Provincial books" (Libri provinciae) it was possible to identify travelling permits issued for balneological treatment and collect data about visits to spas from the entire Czech Province.
authors.affiliation: Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages. 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Karel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cerny
mesh_terms: D057235:Austria-Hungary; D001452:Balneology / Q000266:history*; D018153:Czech Republic; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century