Editorial Pleasing

serendipities that brings a little smile to our lips, such as the discovery of hydrostatics by Archimedes because of floating in a bath or the discovery of gravity by Sir Isaac Newton when an apple fell on his head when he was sleeping beneath a tree, have occurred several times in the history of science. Similar serendipities have happened in medicine in the discovery of new drugs. That is why the late 19th and the early 20th centuries were known as “the age of serendipitous observations”. Serendipity played an important role in the discovery of drugs such as penicillin, aspirin, sulfonamides and some other antibiotics. Beyond any doubt, the isolation of penicillin from th