A description of mercury poisoning among the miners\u27 of Idria from the 16th century

U svom komentaru o Dioskoridu, slavnom liječniku i botaničaru, Petar Andrija Mattioli (1500-1577) opisuje kopanje žive u rudniku Idrija i spominje kronično otrovanje živom, koje se pojavljuje među rudarima i radnicima u obliku gingivitisa, gubitka zuba i tremora. Premda su rudari upotrebljavali zaštitne mjere na pr. začepljivali nosnice i pokrivali usta, rijetko je koji rudar izdržao u radu duže od četiri godine.In his commentary to Dioscorides, the famous physician and botanist Peter Andrew Mattioli (11500-1577) describes the mining of mercury in the mine of Idria and mentions also the effects of chronic poisoning which appears among the miners and workers as gingivitis, loss of teeth and trembling. Although the miners applied preventive measures, such as stoppling the nostrils and covering the mouth, rarely a miner or worker supported this labour longer than four years