The knowledge that certain occupations may lead to disease is probably as old as these occupations, but the first comprehensive effort in occupational medicine was made by Ramazzini in 1700, and the active prevention of occupational diseases began much later. Activities on an international scale were first instituted at the Congress of the International Working Men's Associations in 1867, and f...

In the early months of 1995 Luciano Merlini and I flirted with the idea of forming a new muscle society. There was a general feeling within the neuromuscular fraternity that the 4-yearly muscle congresses organised by the World Federation of Neurology, were too large and too expensive. In addition the whole field was advancing at such a rapid rate that the 4-year interval between meetings was m...

Zhong Yi Xue Ye Bing Xue (Theory of Chinese Medical Hematology), Sun Wei-zheng, ed., National Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Publishing House, Beijing, 2000. Dr. Sun's book represents the first comprehensive Chinese hematology book available in China. This does not mean, however, that treatment manuals of hematological diseases did not exist previously. The main source upon which most ...

ttemational Hippocrates Colloquium ( 13th : 2008 : Austin, Tex.), author. Ancient concepts of the Hippocratic : papers presented at the xmth International Hippocrates olloquium, Austin, Texas, August 2008 / edited by Lesley Dean-Jones and Ralph M. Rosen. p. ; cm. (Studies in ancient medicine, ISSN 0925-1421; volume 46) Includes bibliographical references and index. In English; two papers in Fre...