[Serendipity and pharmaceutical research].
So far as pharmaceutical research in concerned, serendipity plays a significant part even in the genesis of rigorous research. Quite often, scientific discoveries occur by chance, without searching anything or when searching something else. Unforseen discoveries win the medicines of the central nervous system, as well as the side effects of some medicines which received then new indications. Aspirin, iproniazide, reserpine, phenothiazine... Serendipity played its part in drug discovery as well as in any human activity.
Dousset
Jean-Claude
JC
Faculté de pharmacie, Toulouse.
D000077406:History of Pharmacy; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049711:History, Modern 1601-; D012106:Research / Q000266:history*