Resumen

NUNEZ FREILE, Byron. El pensamiento microbiológico de los jesuitas de la Universidad de san Gregorio Magno en la real Audiencia de Quito. Acta méd. peruana, ene./mar. 2010, vol.27, no.1, p.65-73. ISSN 1728-5917.

Jesuit priests have always been men with advanced ideas. Their religious order, the Compañia de Jesus, has been committed to the improvement of the quality of mankind, impregnating persons with new values full of justice, science, and faith. Since the Compañia de Jesus was created, it is not surprising that in the different places they worked at they promoted scientific progress. A clear example of this is the development of some microbiological thoughts in Universidad de San Gregorio Magno in the Real Audiencia (Royal Supreme Court) of Quito.

Palabras llave: Microbiology; Universidad de San Gregorio Magno; history of medicine.