author
Bernardino Ramazzini
1633–1714
Best known as a founder of occupational medicine, this Italian physician looked closely at how everyday work could damage health long before workplace safety became a formal field. His classic study of workers’ diseases helped change the way doctors thought about labor, environment, and prevention.
1 Audiobook
Ephemerides Barometricae Mutinenses (anni M.DC.XCIV) Cum Disquisitione Causae ascensus ac descensus Mercurii in Torricelliana fistula iuxta diversum Aeris statum
by Bernardino Ramazzini, Giovan Battista Boccabadati, Francesco Torti
About the author
Born in Carpi in 1633, Bernardino Ramazzini studied at the University of Parma and went on to build a distinguished medical career in northern Italy. He taught medicine at the University of Modena and later at the University of Padua, earning a lasting reputation as a careful observer of disease and public health.
Ramazzini is remembered above all for De Morbis Artificum Diatriba (Diseases of Workers), first published in 1700. In that book, he described the hazards faced by people in dozens of trades and argued that physicians should ask patients about their work—an idea that now feels obvious, but was remarkably forward-looking in his time.
His writing connected health not just to the body, but to daily life, environment, posture, dust, chemicals, and repetitive labor. Because of that wide view, he is still widely honored as an early pioneer of occupational medicine and preventive health.