12 Great medical discovery infographic (by chance)

By Cornelius Martin 14 Feb 642 Views

12 Great medical discovery infographic (by chance)

Medical breakthroughs are happening all the time, and amazing scientists are working to eliminate disease forever.

While many will know what they are doing to get their job done, many important medical discoveries have happened entirely by accident.

This could be from when researchers are trying to discover something else, or it could be purely accidental and accidental.

This infographic explores some of the greatest medical discoveries made by accident, who discovered them and when.

For example, did you know that Quinine, still used to treat malaria today, was originally discovered in the 1600s by an unknown man who had a fever when he drank from a puddle under a tree

Or was that Warfarin first discovered when a farmer found out that his cattle were bleeding from the anticoagulants in hay, now used as a blood thinner?

Check out the infographic below to learn more about these incidental medical discoveries.