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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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1. Wikipedia: Occupational safety and health
WikipediaOccupational safety and health, Beginnings section
Quote, Occupational safety and health, Beginnings section
In 1473, Ulrich Ellenbog, a German physician, wrote a short treatise On the Poisonous Wicked Fumes and Smokes, focused on coal, nitric acid, lead, and mercury fumes encountered by metal workers and goldsmiths.
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