在人们的心目中,总认为药品都是由药物学家创造发明的。其实不然。新药的发现有必然,也有偶然。有一位老太太多年前患了一种怪病,整天手和腿不由自主地抖动。这在医学上称为帕金森病,又叫做震颤麻痹症,当时无药可医。一次老太太患了严重流感,服用金刚胺片治疗,非但治愈了流感。而且连那古怪的疾病也销声匿迹了。于是金刚胺片摇身一变,竟成为主治震颤麻痹症的特药。又如孕妇严禁服用某些中药,如甘遂、莞花根、天花粉等,否则会引起流产。有人便顺水推舟利用这一特性进行研究,作为计划生育的引产药物。还有一位伤寒病人应用磺胺类药物治疗,不料出现了休克现象。经查明,这是由于该药能降低血糖所致,于是干脆用它来治疗糖尿 In people’s minds, drugs are always considered invented by the pharmacists. actually not. The discovery of new drugs is inevitable, but also by chance. An old lady had a strange disease many years ago, shaking hands involuntarily all the time. This is medically called Parkinson’s disease, also known as Parkinsonism, was no cure. An old lady suffering from a serious flu, taking amantadine treatment, not only cure the flu. And even that weird disease also disappeared. So amantadine tablets transformed, has become the attending paralysis Parkinson’s special medicine. Another example is pregnant women are prohibited to take certain traditional Chinese medicine, such as Kansui, Dongguan flower root, TCS, otherwise it will cause miscarriage. Some people use water to push the boat to make use of this characteristic to conduct research as a quoted drug for family planning. There is also a typhoid patient sulfonamide treatment, unexpectedly appeared shock phenomenon. It is identified, this is because the drug can reduce blood sugar, so simply use it to treat diabetes