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Bernardino Ramazzini

From the Latin text of 1713, revised, with translation and notes by Wilmer Cave Wright. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1940.)

I NOW WISH TO TURN TO . . . workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from . . . some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day long stand or sit, stoop or are bent double; who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of ways. First to come upon the stage shall be those who stand at their work, such as carpenters when they hew and saw wood, carvers, blacksmiths, masons, and others. . . . Standing, even . . . [Full Text]

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