biography
| name: |
Ramazzini, Bernardino
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pronunciation:
[ramatseenee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1633–1714)
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| biography:
| Physician and pioneer of occupational health, born in Capri, SW Italy. He studied at Parma University, practised medicine near Rome, then settled in Modena, where he became professor of medicine (1682–1700). He moved to Padua in 1700. His major work De morbis artificum diatriba (1700, trans Diseases of Workers), was the first systematic treatise on occupational diseases, and includes many shrewd observations about environmental hazards (for example, he noted that potters and painters became ill if exposed to lead). He also made important observations on epidemics in human beings and animals. |
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