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.
Estaba ingresado no Radcliffe Infirmary de Oxford e por sorte para el, había un pequeno equipo médico baixo a dirección do Dr. Howard Florey que conseguira sintetizar un chisco de penicilina, un fármaco que fora descuberto 12 anos antes por Alexander Fleming, pero que xamais se usara  para tratar doenzas humanas e que ninguén sabía se ía funcionar ou se as impurezas que contiña matarían o paciente. Aínda así, Florey e o seu equipo  decidiron usalo, xa que postos a facelo, mellor con alguén que fose morrer de tódalas maneiras.