Developed by names the person credited with introducing a health practice. Wikipedia notes that in 1847 Semmelweis "proposed hand washing with chlorinated lime solutions at Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic," a practice his own colleagues mocked him for at the time. This dimension connects a practice back to the person who first put it into use.
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1. Wikipedia: Vaccination
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In 1796, Edward Jenner, a doctor in Berkeley in Gloucestershire, England, tested a common theory that a person who had contracted cowpox would be immune from smallpox.
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