an
example is
Dr. Semmelweis's discovery of the
cause and cure of childbed fever. For over a half a century after that women still died in
agony after childbearing. Eventually the
culture caught up to it and the illness which had accounted for a huge percentage of female deaths ceased to exist.
Dr. Semme1weis's discovery of its prevention was "ahead of its
time." Pathetically, scoffed and disbelieved, he even died to prove he was
right.
(HCOB 14 May 69 II)