Which statement is true about Bernardino Ramazzini?

• A. He wrote De Morbis Artificium in 1700 describing diseases of workers.
• B. He first described the relationship between work and illness.
• C. He coined the term TLV.
• D. He proposed the CREEP acronym.

Answer: (A)

Ramazzini is celebrated as the founder of occupational medicine, and the key evidence is his landmark publication De Morbis Artificum Diurnis, released around 1700, in which he systematically described diseases observed in workers across many trades and tied them to their occupational tasks and environments. This work explicitly frames health problems as occupational in origin and offers practical guidance for prevention, making it the classic foundation for understanding how work affects health. The other statements either attribute modern terms or a broader claim to him that isn’t the defining point of his legacy, or oversimplify historical timing, whereas the published treatise itself directly documents the diseases of workers and their link to work.