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Book review
Atlas of occupational health and disease
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Nerys R Williams and John Harrison (£55), 2004. London: Hodder Arnold. ISBN 0340740698
This book caused me to question the assertion that a picture is worth a thousand words. The use of illustrations in Agricola’s De Re Metallica, carefully annotated and described as they were, would undoubtedly have aided comprehension of his descriptions of preventive measures in an era when such concepts had become unfamiliar, and all well trained occupational physicians should know of the influence on Parliament of the illustrations in the report …