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Quinine’s effectiveness against malaria was discovered through a poisoning attempt.
According to legend, an Andean man tried to kill his wife with cinchona bark in a pool of water. Instead of dying, she was cured of malaria, leading to the discovery of quinine as a treatment for the disease.
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Modern chemotherapy began with observations of WWI mustard gas victims.
Doctors noticed that soldiers exposed to mustard gas had reduced white blood cell counts. This observation led to...
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The modern smoke detector was invented while testing a sensitive camera lens.
In 1941, Swiss physicist Walter Jaeger was trying to create a sensor for poison gas. When his cigarette...
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Band-Aids were invented by a husband trying to help his accident-prone wife.
In 1920, Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson created small bandages his wife could easily apply to her...