Serendipity
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Serendipitous Medicines-Discoveries by Chance
Abstract: Discovery is nothing but the art of finding something. In the medical history, number of discoveries happened by chance. These happy accidental discoveries are well known as serendipity, a word coined by Horace Walpore. Serendipity is a pleasant surprise of finding a particularly useful information while not looking for it. There is interesting well known serendipitous drug discoveries in medical science such as penicillin, cephalosporin, aspirin, nitrous oxide, and sildenafil …
Published in International Journal of Composite and Constituent Materials · Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2021 · pp. 12–16 Read article