RAMAZZINI, BERNARDIN, an Italian physician, born at Carpi, near Modena, in 1633. He was professor of physic in the university of Modena during eighteen years; in 1700 he accepted an invitation from Padua, where he was made rector of the college; and in 1714 he died. His works were collected and published in London in 1716; and of these, his treatise De Morbis Artificum, or on the maladies peculiar to artificers, will always be esteemed curious and useful.