“The mortality of those who dig minerals is very great, and women who marry men of this sort marry again and again. According to Agricola, at the mines in the Carpathian mountains, women have been known to marry seven times.” MenHas BeensKnownMinesHealthMountainSevenMortalityAgain And AgainMineralsMiningMarry MeTime Heals Book:Diseases of Workers Source: Diseases of Workers
“An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm which could be removed by no medicines, and which was at last succeeded by a perfect palsy of the whole arm. . . . He learned to write with his left hand, which was soon thereafter seized with the same disorder.” WritingFirstsWholeHandsLastsLeftPerfectMinesHealthArmsMedicineProfessionComplainingDisorderPerpetualAcquaintanceLeft HandNotary Author:Bernardino Ramazzini
