Dr John Thomas Arlidge and Victorian occupational medicine.
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In 1892 Dr John Thomas Arlidge, physician at the North Staffordshire Infirmary, published The hygiene, diseases and mortality of occupations.' This lengthy volumeover 550 pages-was the first significant British publication on occupational diseases since Charles Turner Thackrah's The effects of the principal arts, trades and professions, ... on health and longevity, published in 1831.2 Hygiene made Arlidge the leading latenineteenth-century authority on occupational diseases. The book was based principally on his experience of observing and treating occupational diseases-particularly those of potters-during his appointments at the North Staffordshire Infirmary and as Factory Certifying Surgeon for Stoke-on-Trent. His contribution to occupational medicine also included leadership of the Association of Certifying Medical Officers (ACMO),3 formed in 1868 to represent the interests of Certifying Surgeons. Arlidge was elected as its first and only President, and he dominated the ACMO until its demise ten years later. In the 1 890s following the publication of Hygiene, he was also associated with the introduction of health and safety legislation in the pottery industry.4 This article addresses Arlidge's contribution to the practice of occupational medicine, especially his leadership of the ACMO, and to the medical understanding of occupational diseases, particularly respiratory diseases of potters. It extends previous accounts of his
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 42 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998