How accidental erections became a medical breakthrough

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How accidental erections led to one modern medicine's biggest medical breakthroughs.

Scientists in the 1950s were determined to create a safe prophylactic, and began testing synthetic progesterone on women.

The pill works by preventing ovulation; when a woman is on the pill, no new eggs are released because the pill makes her body believe she is already pregnant.In 1884, cocaine was used as a local anaesthetic but it was found to cause addiction and death. So, the race was on to find a safer substitute. German chemist Alfred Einhorn eventually discovered the injectable local anaesthetic procaine, which became Novocaine.

 

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