Bernardino Ramazzini

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Ramazzini
De Morbis Artificum Diatriba, 1713

Bernardino Ramazzini (born October 4, 1633 in Carpi , † November 5, 1714 in Padua ) was an Italian doctor , is considered the founder of occupational medicine and a pioneer of hygiene and social medicine.

Life

De morbis artificum diatriba , 1745

Ramazzini received instruction in the arts and sciences through Jesuits until 1652. He then studied philosophy in Parma and medicine from 1655 to 1659. After graduating with a doctorate, he received training in practical medicine from Antonio Maria Rossi in Rome. Afterwards he worked as an employed doctor in Canino. However, after contracting malaria quartana , he left Rome again. Following his recovery, he opened his practice in Modena.

In 1682 he was given a chair in medicine at the University of Modena by Duke Francesco II . From 1700 until his death he worked as a professor of medicine at the University of Padua . In 1700 he published his socially critical work De morbis artificum diatriba, inspired by Leibniz, the first complete description of important diseases of over 50 professional groups and called for preventive health care. He is considered one of the pioneers of occupational medicine and also dealt with the occupational diseases of women.

In a commentary " De principum valetudine tuenda " Ramazzini dealt with court medicine in 1710. The book received a lot of attention from the Leib- und Hofmedici all over Europe and saw two reprints in the first two years of publication. A French translation followed in 1724.

In 1712 Ramazzini published the first detailed description of the rinderpest . On the basis of this work, Giovanni Maria Lancisi later developed the first control program against this animal disease . Ramazzini was - in contrast to his Modena colleague Francesco Torti - a staunch opponent of the excessive use of cinchona bark, which had become common in his area due to the increasing frequency of malaria .

Honors

In 1693 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 1707 Ramazzini was a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences . Ramazzini corresponded with important scholars of his time, such as Giovanni Battista Morgagni , Antonio Vallisnieri , Giovanni Maria Lancisi and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Ramazzini, Bernardino. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1213.
  2. ^ Wolfgang U. Eckart : Bernardino Ramazzini . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 1st edition 1995 CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung München pp. 295 + 296, 2nd edition 2001 pp. 258 + 259, 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York p. 269 ​​+ 270. Medical glossary 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
  3. ↑ Bernardino Ramazzini. De principium valetudine tuenda. JP Conzatti, Padua 1710. Digitized
  4. ^ Ralf Bröer: Court medicine. Structures of medical care at an early modern princely court using the example of the Viennese imperial court (1650-1750) , post- doctoral thesis Institute History of Medicine, Institute Director Wolfgang U. Eckart , Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2008, pp. 370–379. Broer: Court medicine
  5. ^ Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio: Torti, Francesco. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1406.
  6. ↑ Francesco Torti: Responsiones iatro-apologeticae ad criticam dissertationem de abusu chinae Mutinensibus medicis perperam objecto a Bernardino Ramazzino. Modena 1715.
  7. ↑ cf. Wolfgang U. Eckart 1995, 2001, 2006.
  8. ↑ Member entry of Bernardo Ramazzini at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ cf. Wolfgang U. Eckart 1995, 2001, 2006.


personal data
SURNAME Ramazzini, Bernardino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1633
PLACE OF BIRTH Carpi (Province of Modena)
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1714
Place of death Padua