Achievements and development prospects occupational pathology in the USSR

Domestic occupational pathology as a branch of medical science is one of the youngest disciplines. The first work on occupational pathology with an analysis of the causes of morbidity among workers at industrial enterprises date back to the second half of the 19th century. and are associated with the names of A.N. Nikitin, F.F.Erisman, V.V. Svetlovsky, D.P. Nikolsky and other figures of domestic medicine. As the first works on occupational pathology, it should be noted the monograph by A.N. Nikitin "Diseases of workers with an indication of protective measures" (1847), individual observations of factory and zemstvo doctors on cases of industrial poisoning with a description of the clinical features of occupational intoxication and published in 1877 under edited by FF Erisman 19-volume "Guide to the sanitary examination of factories and plants in the Moscow province."