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Ramazzini
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Ra·maz·zi·ni (rämät-tsn), Bernardino 1633-1714.
Italian physician who was a pioneer in the field of occupational medicine. In 1700 he published the first systematic study connecting the environmental hazards of specific professions to disease, such as lead exposure in potters and painters.
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The recent Million Women breast cancer study, which found that having children and breastfeeding protected against the disease, confirmed the findings of the 17th-century Italian physician Bernardino Ramazzini, who came to the same conclusion after discovering nuns were more likely to develop breast cancer than the general female population.
The scientific application of nun testing by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Health hazards in the arts have been recognized at least since 1713 when Bernardino Ramazzini published Diseases of Tradesmen, (1) and there have been sporadic publications on various related subjects over the past three centuries.
Arts medicine: an interdisciplinary paradigm by Sataloff, Robert Thayer / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
As early as 1700, Bernardino Ramazzini, the Italian founder of occupational medicine, recognised that there was one female occupation whose members were far more likely to die from breast cancer than any other - nuns.
How 18th-century nuns held clue to possible breast cancer cure by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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