Where names the place a health milestone actually happened or first took hold. Wikipedia notes that "inoculation for smallpox appears to have started in China around the 1500s," centuries before Jenner's vaccine reached Europe. This dimension shows which places have produced the turning points in health history.
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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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