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== History of MSDS ==
== History of MSDS ==
MSDS's have been a part of the [[science|scientific]] practice of [[chemistry]] since the first (postdiluvian) chemists began their experiments.<ref name=Kaplan>Kaplan, Samuel Aaron. "[http://jrm.phys.ksu.edu/Safety/kaplan.html Development of Material Safety Data Sheets]." American Chemical Society, April 13-18, 2007. Accessed May 13, 2008.</ref> The first written MSDS's were probably tomb paintings and papyrus records in ancient [[Egypt]], and especially the records of [[Imhotep]] the physician. A few centuries later the Sumerians produced their MSDS equivalents on clay tablets.
MSDS's have been a part of the [[science|scientific]] practice of [[chemistry]] since the first (postdiluvian) chemists began their experiments.<ref name=Kaplan>Kaplan, Samuel Aaron. "[http://jrm.phys.ksu.edu/Safety/kaplan.html Development of Material Safety Data Sheets]." American Chemical Society, April 13–18, 2007. Accessed May 13, 2008.</ref> The first written MSDS's were probably tomb paintings and papyrus records in ancient [[Egypt]], and especially the records of [[Imhotep]] the physician. A few centuries later the Sumerians produced their MSDS equivalents on clay tablets.
MSDS's from the [[Greece|Greek]] and [[Rome|Roman]] periods reveal as much about the tremendous development of [[medicine]] (and from Rome, battlefield medicine) during those periods as about the attention that the Greeks and Romans paid to the safe handling of medicines, dyes, and other materials that they handled. When Rome fell, the great monasteries of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] kept much of this information, and the great [[Islam|Muslim]] empires kept even more. Kaplan<ref name=Kaplan/> credits the re-introduction of these records into southern [[Italy]] and [[France]] with helping start the Renaissance.
MSDS's from the [[Greece|Greek]] and [[Rome|Roman]] periods reveal as much about the tremendous development of [[medicine]] (and from Rome, battlefield medicine) during those periods as about the attention that the Greeks and Romans paid to the safe handling of medicines, dyes, and other materials that they handled. When Rome fell, the great monasteries of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] kept much of this information, and the great [[Islam|Muslim]] empires kept even more. Kaplan<ref name=Kaplan/> credits the re-introduction of these records into southern [[Italy]] and [[France]] with helping start the Renaissance.