He was at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, and fortunately for him, a small team of doctors led by a Dr. Howard Florey had managed to synthesize a very small amount of penicillin, a drug that had been discovered 12 years before by Alexander Fleming but had never actually been used to treat a human, and indeed no one even knew if the drug would work, if it was full of impurities that would kill the patient, but Florey and his team figured if they had to use it, they might as well use it on someone who was going to die anyway.
Он лежал в больнице им. Рэдклиффа в Оксфорде. К счастью для него, группа врачей под руководством доктора Говарда Флори смогла синтезировать небольшое количество пенициллина.