title: [The Royal Society of Medicine, harbinger of occupational medicine and ergonomics].
abstract: During her short life (1776-1793), the Royal Society of Medicine of Paris brought forth which will become Occupational Medicine. It was indeed at the meetings of the Royal Society that Fourcroy presented in 1776 the french translation of "De morbis artificum diatriba" from Ramazzini (1701), with introduction and notes showing evolution of knowledge. Then, from 1779 to 1793, corresponding fellows physicians, manufacturers, inspectors, showed professional diseases, prevention's means, learning's methods and diffusion's possibilities. Those impulses, too early stopped, will be born again during the XIX th. century and will arrive with Devoto in 1901 to the first using of a specific expression which will be in italian "Medicina del Lavoro".
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Valentin
mesh_terms: D006804:Ergonomics / Q000266:history*; D005602:France; D049671:History, 18th Century; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000266:history*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: La Société Royale de Médecine, précurseur de la médecine du travail et de l'ergonomie.