RESUMO
In this article, the authors analyze the role the "Sant Vicente de Paül" Sisters of Charity had in treating the ill in Majorca during the 19th Century. The authors carried out their research on two primary resources: The Rules of Life and a record of members of the order called the Book of the Curia. The authors tried to identify the methods the sisters followed in their work inside the Rules, searching for those aspects indicating their possible influence on the health of the population to whom they served as well as searching for references to their dedication as teachers, nurses and/or managers. In the Book of the Curia, the authors analyze the social data registered for the first 320 members of the order; evaluating their age upon entrance, their length of stay in the order, their job, and the cause of their death in order to compare these according to whether a sister was a teacher or a nurse.
