The single milestone documenting the founding surveillance of an occupational health hazard among a specific working population, distinct from general population disease-frequency epidemiology. Belongs here: the Farr Report on Cornish Miners. Does not belong here: a disease-frequency study not tied to a specific occupation, grouped under epidemiology.
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In 1473, Ulrich Ellenbog, a German physician, wrote a short treatise On the Poisonous Wicked Fumes and Smokes, focused on coal, nitric acid, lead, and mercury fumes encountered by metal workers and goldsmiths.
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