What's the oldest "accidental (potion) ingredient as inciting incident" story?
Is it 1886's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, where the accidental ingredientingredient's a "impurity of [unknown] salt"?
The TVTropes entry for this event seems to be a possible variant of what they call Accidental Discovery, Freak Lab Accident, or Miraculous Malfunction.