Hektoen International

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Tag: Georgius Agricola

  • Agricola’s De re metallica: an early description of industrial diseases

    The “Father of Mineralogy,” Georgius Agricola. Via Wikimedia. Georg Bauer was born in Saxony in 1494 and went by the name of Georgius Agricola because in his time academicians often latinized their name, so that Bauer in German translated into Agricola, meaning peasant or farmer. He was a medical practitioner in a small mining town…

  • Ramazzini and the birth of occupational medicine

    Luciano Daliento Lucia Dal Bianco Gabriella Romeo Italy   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…