The Early Scientific Revolution

The scientific revolution had some emphasis on science, starting its advances with the French Revolution's end and the coming 19th century. Religious authority also had reduced, rigid control over science. 
 
There were also individuals with scientific training and viewpoints, who were able to tread into new fields that enlightened knowledge for progress. Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, Daniel Bernoulli, Henry Cavendish, Joseph Priestley, James Watt, Antoine Lavoisier, and the inquisitive American Benjamin Franklin, all dating as far back as the early 1700s, started the trend. 
 
Nevertheless, science never expanded to where consumer needs were fully addressed as they could have been. No genuine, concerted effort was ever made by the powers-that-be to expand scientific knowledge, particularly with regard to health. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole tweets.)