"Diseases caused by lead monoxide fumes and miners' lung fatigue" - Miners' lung fatigue and illnesses caused by lead monoxide fumes

…G. Agricola's 16th century book De re metallica already contained a system of scientific research into mines, which included detailed descriptions of sanitary engineering for drainage and ventilation in the mines, as well as vivid records of disasters and illnesses caused by unsanitary conditions in the mines and working conditions. It also described the need for a combination of engineering, hygiene, and socio-economics to maintain the mines, showing that a basic understanding of industrial hygiene had already been established. Around the same time, Paracelsus wrote Miners' and Other Mining Diseases (1533-34), followed by Stockhausen's Diseases of Lead Monoxide Fumes and Miners' Lung Fatigue (1656), and then Bernardino Ramazzini (1633-1714) of Italy published De morbis artificum diatriba (1700), a compilation of knowledge about occupations and health that had been passed down since Hippocrates. Around the same time in Japan, there is a record of a three-year digging of a ventilation shaft to ventilate the inside of a gold mine in Sado (1663), and a record of silicosis (1756), but the scale of industry was small, and industrial hygiene activities were lagging far behind those in Europe.

*The following is a portion of the glossary that refers to "Lead Monoxide Fumes Disease and Miners' Lung Illness."

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…16世紀のG.アグリコラの著書《デ･レ･メタリカ》には，すでに鉱山における科学的な研究の体系が記されているが，そのなかには坑内の排水，換気などの環境整備のための衛生工学の実際，坑内の環境や労働の非衛生的な状態による災害や病気の生々しい記録が詳細に記され，鉱山を維持するための工学，衛生学，社会経済学の総合の必要性が述べられており，産業衛生の基本的認識がすでにできあがっていることがうかがえる。同じころパラケルススの《鉱夫病とその他の鉱山病》(1533‐34)，ついでシュトックハウゼンの《一酸化鉛の有害煙気による病気と鉱夫肺労》(1656)が著され，やがてイタリアのラマッツィーニBernardino Ramazzini(1633‐1714)の《働く人々の病気De morbis artificum diatriba》(1700)が現れ，ヒッポクラテス以来の職業と健康に関する知識が集大成された。ほぼ同時代の日本には，佐渡の金山で，坑内の換気のために通気坑を3年がかりで掘ったという記録(1663)や，珪肺(よろけ)の記録(1756)があるが，産業の規模は小さく，産業衛生活動はヨーロッパとは比べられないほど遅れていた。…

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