{"id":9187,"date":"2017-04-28T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=9187"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:58:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:58:12","slug":"accidental-medical-discoveries-infographic","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/accidental-medical-discoveries-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Amazing (Accidental) Medical Discoveries Infographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical breakthroughs are happening all the time, and amazing scientists are working to eliminate diseases forever.\n</p><p>While many will know what they\u2019re doing in order to carry out their work, there have been many important medical discoveries that happened completely by accident.\n</p><p>This may either be from when researchers were trying to discover something else, or it might have been entirely accidental and by chance.\n</p><p>This&nbsp;infographic explores some of the most amazing medical discoveries made by accident, who discovered them and when.\n</p><p>For example, did you know that Quinine, which is 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 pool of water under a quina-quina tree which cured him?\n</p><p>Or that Warfarin was first discovered when a farmer found that his cattle were haemorrhaging due to an anticoagulant in the hay, which is used today as a blood thinner?\n</p><p>Take a look at the infographic below to find out more about these accidental medical discoveries.\n</p><h2>12 Amazing Accidental Medical Discoveries Infographic\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' wp-image-9188 size-full src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2016%5C/11%5C/medical-discoveries-by-accident.png%5C%22" alt='\"12' amazing medical discoveries width='\"960\"' height='\"6447\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/medical-discoveries-by-accident.png' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>Medical breakthroughs are happening all the time, and amazing scientists are working to eliminate diseases forever. 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