All Bernardino Ramazzini Quotes
- Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the… All
- 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… Acquaintance
- 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… All
- The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on… Arm
- Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the muscles is such… Action
- ...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese… Accumulation
- All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving… All
- [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… Affection