Title: Diseases of Workers (Originally De Morbis Artificum Bernardini Ramazzini Diatriba)
Author: Bernardino Ramazzini (An Italian physician universally recognized as the "Father of Occupational Medicine")
Translator/Editor: Wilmer Cave Wright (Emeritus Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College)
Publisher: The Classics of Medicine Library (A Division of Gryphon Editions, Ltd., Birmingham, Alabama)
Publication Date: 1983 (Special Edition Copyright)
Edition Type: A deluxe leather facsimile reprint of the landmark 1940 University of Chicago Press edition, which featured the revised 1713 Latin text alongside Wright's definitive English translation.
Binding & Features:
Full premium muted slate-gray leather binding with a hubbed spine.
Decorated with a gorgeous, delicate oval floral border stamped in 22kt gold gilt on the front cover.
All edges gilt (gilded page edges) with a matching light-gray silk ribbon page marker.
Marbled/moire pattern endsheets.
Condition Notes: Excellent Condition, no notable signs of wear
Interesting Notes about this title:
Before Ramazzini published this work, when a doctor visited a sick person, they typically asked basic questions about symptoms. Ramazzini completely changed the medical diagnostic process forever by instructing physicians to ask one simple, revolutionary question: "What is your occupation?"
He realized that the environments people worked in, whether they were miners breathing dust, bakers inhaling flour, or cobblers sitting hunched over all day, were directly responsible for their chronic illnesses. He even included chapters on the health hazards faced by writers, scholars, and printers due to sedentary lifestyles and intense eye strain. It was the world's very first comprehensive study of workplace health and safety hazards, making it the bedrock foundation of all modern labor laws and industrial hygiene.
Title: Diseases of Workers (Originally De Morbis Artificum Bernardini Ramazzini Diatriba)
Author: Bernardino Ramazzini (An Italian physician universally recognized as the "Father of Occupational Medicine")
Translator/Editor: Wilmer Cave Wright (Emeritus Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College)
Publisher: The Classics of Medicine Library (A Division of Gryphon Editions, Ltd., Birmingham, Alabama)
Publication Date: 1983 (Special Edition Copyright)
Edition Type: A deluxe leather facsimile reprint of the landmark 1940 University of Chicago Press edition, which featured the revised 1713 Latin text alongside Wright's definitive English translation.
Binding & Features:
Full premium muted slate-gray leather binding with a hubbed spine.
Decorated with a gorgeous, delicate oval floral border stamped in 22kt gold gilt on the front cover.
All edges gilt (gilded page edges) with a matching light-gray silk ribbon page marker.
Marbled/moire pattern endsheets.
Condition Notes: Excellent Condition, no notable signs of wear
Interesting Notes about this title:
Before Ramazzini published this work, when a doctor visited a sick person, they typically asked basic questions about symptoms. Ramazzini completely changed the medical diagnostic process forever by instructing physicians to ask one simple, revolutionary question: "What is your occupation?"
He realized that the environments people worked in, whether they were miners breathing dust, bakers inhaling flour, or cobblers sitting hunched over all day, were directly responsible for their chronic illnesses. He even included chapters on the health hazards faced by writers, scholars, and printers due to sedentary lifestyles and intense eye strain. It was the world's very first comprehensive study of workplace health and safety hazards, making it the bedrock foundation of all modern labor laws and industrial hygiene.
