Abstract
THE study of industrial diseases is a subject which, for obvious reasons, received little attention from medical men until comparatively recent times. Bernardino Ramazzini's “De morbis artificum diatribum” of 1700 was the first comprehensive work on occupational diseases, and the second was that of Thackrah of Leeds published in 1831. This latter work and the growth of industrialization in the United States of America influenced the Medical Society of the State of New York to propose for a prize essay in 1835 the subject of “The influences of trades, professions and occupations in the United States in the production of disease”. The winner of the prize was a twenty-three year old physician, Benjamin W. McCready, and his essay was first published in 1837. This book contains the original essay with a critical historical introduction by Genevieve Miller.
On the Influence of Trades, Professions, and Occupations in the United States, in the Production of Disease
By Dr. Benjamin W. McCready, 1837. (Publications of the Institute of the History of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University, Fourth Series: Bibliotheca Medica Americana, Vol. 4.) Pp. vii + 129. (Baltimora, Md.: Johns Hopkins University, 1943.) 1.75 dollars.
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On the Influence of Trades, Professions, and Occupations in the United States, in the Production of Disease. Nature 154, 446 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154446a0
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