Career
He was appointed to the chair of theory of medicine at University of Modena in 1682 then served as professor of medicine at the University of Padua from 1700 until his death. He is often called "the father of occupational medicine"
The first edition of De Morbis was published in 1700 in Modena, the second in 1713 in Padua.
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