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==Medicine== * [[William Cheselden]] publishes ''Anatomy of the Human Body'' and it becomes a popular work on anatomy, at least in part due to it being written in English rather than [[Latin]]. * Italian [[Bernardino Ramazzini]] provides one of the first descriptions of task-specific [[dystonia]] in his book of occupational diseases, ''Morbis Artificum'',<ref>Ramazzini B. ''Diseases of Workers''. Translated from De Morbis Artificum of 1713 by [[Wilmer Cave Wright]]. New York: Haffner, 1964.</ref> noting in chapter II of its Supplementum that "Scribes and Notaries" may develop "incessant movement of the hand, always in the same direction β¦ the continuous and almost tonic strain on the muscles... that results in failure of power in the right hand".
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