translation.en: He was at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, and fortunately for him, 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,
translation.zh: 他在牛津市的Radcliffe Infirmary 医院接受治疗， 幸运的是， 由霍华德·弗洛里医生 （译注：澳洲药理学家） 带头的一个医疗小组 成功的合成了 少量的盘尼西林， 一种被亚历山大·弗莱明 （译注：苏格兰药学家） 在12年前发现的药物， 但它从来没有被用来给人治病， 事实上甚至没有人知道 这种药是否有效， 如果这种药不纯净是否会致死，