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Branch links a health practice to the field of medicine it grew out of. Wikipedia describes Ignaz Semmelweis as "an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures" whose hand washing requirement began inside obstetrics, the branch where childbed fever was killing new mothers. This dimension groups practices that belong to the same branch of health work.

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Era of EmergenceSourced to the subject's own account
1912 1
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1. Wikipedia: Nutrition
WikipediaNutrition, History section
Quote, Nutrition, History section
Modern nutrition science began in the 1910s as individual micronutrients began to be identified.
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