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The Accidental Discovery of the Potency Pill
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Viagra’s famously surprising origin story is a pretty common way to find new drugs. A nurse on her rounds noticed that the men in a trial of a heart medicine were lying on their stomachs, embarrassed, because they were getting erections. This is the story of how the so-called “potency pill” was born, from a failing angina drug to the Welsh miners who nearly went unheard, to the lung condition it…