History of Occupational Health

Socrates:- About the workers 4 Century BC:Hippocrates:- Lead Colics Air, Water, Places st 1 Century AD:Pling:Zinc & Sulphur nd 2 Century AD:Galen:Pathology of Lead Poisoning 1494 1555:Georgins Agricola:- Miners Diseases & Prevention De Re Metallica 1956 Carpathian Mountains Women Married to 7 husbands 1493 1541 Ponacelsus:Diseases of Smelters book in 1567 1557 Fernal :- Mercury About 1550 Martin Pausa:- Pupil of Agricola:- Hg, Co & Other metals vapours. 1602 Forestus:- Paralysis by Metal Fumes 1700:Brenadrio Ramazzini :- Father of Occ. Medicine. DE MORBIS ARTIFICUM DIATRIBA 1760 1860:Industrial Revolution Edwin Chadwick, Lawyer & Sanitarian, about sanitation of his town Robert Owen:- Cotton mill Owner kind treatment to the workers Fedrick Engles:- Factory Owner Welfare of Young Sir Anthony Ashley - Cooper:- Passed law for Protection of Young The Health & Moral of Apprentices Act 1802 Early 1900:Dr. Alice Hamilton:- Industrial Hygiene 1943:Ulrich Ellenbog:CO, Hg, Pb & Nitric Acid
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India 1881:1911 1923:-

First Factories Act 1881 due to agitation by Mr. S.S. Bengalee Further Amendments