Occupational medicine
Generic Name:
Medicine required due to where you work
Definition:
The field of medicine that encompasses occupational diseases. Occupational medicine was founded in 1700 by the Italian physician Bernardino Ramazzini, who recognized the relationship between lead and antimony and the symptoms of poisoning in painters and other artisans exposed to them.
Bernardino also first recognized miners' lung disease and as such, occupational disease research was borne.
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