Xenocrates
Deity
This is inspired by the news that French clay is going to save the World:
http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3104663.ece
The word is serendipity, a discovery made by accident (and with sagacity), and I've started a list:
Can you guys add a few more? There's got to be plenty in medicine (and folk medicine).
http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3104663.ece
MRSA is the scourge of the country's hospitals, but now the discovery in France of a volcanic clay with miraculous healing properties raises the prospect of a cure for it, and to other dangerous superbugs.
The word is serendipity, a discovery made by accident (and with sagacity), and I've started a list:
- X-rays discovered by Roentgen.
- Gunpowder was discovered by Chinese doctors who were attempting to make an elixir of immortality (for Qin?).
- Pennicilin. Fleming's dish of bugs was accidentally contaminated by a mould that killed them.
Can you guys add a few more? There's got to be plenty in medicine (and folk medicine).