First edition of the first systematic treatise on occupational diseases by Bernardo Ramazzini (1633-1714), practicing physician at Modena in Italy and professor of medicine at Modema and Padua. It is the first work adequately dealing with diseases connected with specific professions, and it earned the author the title of "the father of industrial hygiene". It deals with miner's pneumoconiosis and other miner's diseases, with lead-poisoning of potters, silicosis of stonemasons, eye-trouble of gilders, printers and other graphic artisans, diseases among metal-workers, and even with the 'diseases of monks, nuns, capitalists and scholars'.
The work was re-published at Utrecht in 1703, and translated into English in 1705. Before the middle of the 19th century some 25 separate editions and translations were published.
Some occasional minor spots and some pages slightly browned. Very good copy of the first systematic treatise on occupational diseases. Garrison & Morton 2121; Krivatsy 9366; PMM 170; Waller 7727; Wellcome IV, 467.