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Context: This research analyzed contents of Dr. Bedrikow’s papers and texts in order to recognize meanings and motivations. At the beginning of his career, he practiced Internal Medicine and demonstrated special interest in sexually transmitted diseases. Since the first years of 1950s, his exclusive focus became the Occupational Health. He had been in charge of the “Preliminar Investigation of Industrial Hygiene of the city of São Paulo”, the first study to investigate it in Brazil. He took part in a research about silicosis in industries of the city of São Paulo, recognized by the National Academy of Medicine with the Prize Alvarenga, in 1952. After half a century, he wrote about this experience and about his activities in other STD facilities. He prepared scientific publications about other occupational diseases, occupational toxicology, and the history of Occupational Medicine, and identified the presence of this specialty in literary compositions of Euclides da Cunha and Gabriel Garcia Marques. Not to mention only his academic and professional activities, it has been decided to ask one of his remaining first colleagues, associated to the ANAMT, to write a few words about their coexistence, high lightening the most significant and picturesque moments. Jorge da Rocha Gomes took on this assignment.

Palabras clave: Occupational medicine; occupational health; history of medicine.

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Vol. 13 Núm.1. Enero-Junio 2015 Pags. 43-57 Revista Bras. Med. Trab. 2015; 13(1)