Credited to names the person whose work made a health milestone possible. Wikipedia notes that "in 1796, Edward Jenner introduced the modern smallpox vaccine," nearly two centuries before the disease was finally declared eradicated. This dimension connects a milestone back to the individual most responsible for it.
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In 1543 he wrote a book De contagione et contagiosis morbis, in which he was the first to promote personal and environmental hygiene to prevent disease.
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