The mortality of those who dig minerals is very great, and women who marry men of this sort … - Bernardino Ramazzini

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For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

Bernardino Ramazzini

The mortality of those who dig minerals is very great, and women who marry men of this sort marry again and again. According to Agricola, at the mines in the Carpathian mountains, women have been known to marry seven times.

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An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm which could be removed by no medicines, and which was at last succeeded by a perfect palsy of the whole arm. . . . He learned to write with his left hand, which was soon thereafter seized with the same disorder.

Acquaintance, Health, Medicine, Perpetual, Succeeded, Writing

The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous. . . strain on the muscles and tendons.

Continuous, Hands, Health, Incessant, Paper, Tendons

[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. . . . the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers. . . [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.

Exercise, Motions, Posture, Running, Science

When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.

Considers, Fate, Lying, Men, Moment, Ought

I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.

Bakers, Dough, Fact, Hands, Health, Swelled