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 w…

- Bernardino Ramazzini

Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the muscle…

- Bernardino Ramazzini

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 k…

- Bernardino Ramazzini

All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving the blood becomes ta…

- Bernardino Ramazzini

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 …

- Bernardino Ramazzini

...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... …

- 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 mine…

- Bernardino Ramazzini

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 art of medicin…

- Bernardino Ramazzini

[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body …

- Bernardino Ramazzini