Today, medical research takes up to 10 years to complete with thousands of hours of research taking place to perfect the drug, but that hasn’t always been the case. In fact, many medicines that we take for granted today are actually the result of accidents, with scientists often researching cures for completely different ailments. We look at 8 accidental discoveries that revolutionised medicine.

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