Occ Med History and CFRs

Question 1

What was Pliney Elder’s observation and intervention to help workers

Answer 1

Silver fumes could be lethal and he used animal bladders “veils” to protect workers

Question 2

What was Galen’s contribution to Occupational Medicine

Answer 2

• physician to the gladiators
• treated wounds at work site
• observation of miner’s exposed to acid mests

Question 3

Rhazes significance in the history of Occupational Medicine

Answer 3

he doccumented the jobs of his patients

Question 4

Who is considered the father of Occupational Medicine

Answer 4

Bernardino Ramazzini

Question 5

What were Berdardino Ramazzini’s contributions to the field of Occupational Medicine

Answer 5

• physician should ask their patients about their workplace
• he visited worksites
• pioneered the field of Ergonomics

Question 6

Percival Pott was considered the father of what?

Answer 6

Father of environmental carcinogenesis

Question 7

What did Percival Pott pioneer

Answer 7

Observational epidemiology

-discovered scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps

Question 8

First medical inspector in English Factories

Answer 8

Sir Thomas Morison Legge

-became the leading authority on lead poisoning

Question 9

Why was Dr. Alice Hamilton considered a social reformer

Answer 9

• first woman appointed to the faculty at Harvard
• national expert for workers exposed to toxic chemicals
• helped to expose the “radium girls” and ethyl leaded gasoline

Question 10

Factory Act of 1867

Answer 10

limited work hours for children and women