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,
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，