5 Bizarre Accidents That Helped Invent Modern Medicine

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By: Tom Lagana April 29, 2011450,141 views

We like to think that medicine is an exact science, as the adjective "haphazard" doesn't exactly inspire confidence when it's applied to people who have the power to stick their fingers up our ugly bits. But it turns out that some of the greatest discoveries in modern medicine didn't come about as a consequence of hundreds of dedicated doctors slaving away for hours in a lab. They occurred because people are often stupid, lazy, incompetent, unlucky or accident-prone.

And some of those people happen to be doctors.


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Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_19149_5-bizarre-accidents-that-helped-invent-modern-medicine.html

[bvar22]

1. Great site,

but my connection is too slow to page through it.
Is this the same "Cracked" that put out a magazine in the early 60s?

IIRC, Viagra was "discovered" by accident too.

[drmeow]

2. The pill was supposed to be a

fertility treatment ... to help women get pregnant. Didn't work so well at that task!

[laconicsax]

3. Delete, wrong place.

[laconicsax]

4. Yes, it was developed as hypertension medication.

Boners just happened to be a side effect.