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INTRODUCTION TO OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH |
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In 1700, industrial hygiene regained respectability. The first comprehensive
book on occupational medicine was published in 1700 in Italy by the "father of
industrial medicine," Bernardino Ramazzini. His "De Morbis Artificum
Diatriba" or "The Diseases of Workmen", contained accurate descriptions of
the occupational diseases of most of the workers of his time. The book described silicosis
in pathological terms from observations of autopsies on miners' bodies. Unfortunately his ideas for preventive measures were to be largely ignored for several centuries. However, his book was to have an effect on the future of industrial hygiene. Ramazzini believed occupational diseases were most effectively studied in the work environment rather than in hospital wards. The question posed by Ramazzini, which he felt should be included in every physician's case history of a patient, was "of what trade are you?" |
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