Hektoen International

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  • Ramazzini and the birth of occupational medicine

    Luciano DalientoLucia Dal BiancoGabriella RomeoItaly Bernardino Ramazzini, considered to be the founder of occupational and industrial medicine, was born in 1633 in Capri, a little town in the north of Italy, known nowadays because of its ceramics. Following the important innovations of the Paduan school of anatomy (Vesalius, Fabricius d’Acquapendente, and Harvey), he spearheaded the…