In 1941 Albert Alexander got scratched by a rose thorn. His whole face, eyes and scalp had gotten very swollen from it. Albert had only one eye before the incident because the other one had already been removed due to abscesses that had been unsuccessfully drained. After the scratch his other eye got lanced to relieve pain and swelling. Henry Florey selected Albert to be the first patient to receive penicillin. A day after he had been given penicillin, he started to recover. Florey didn't have enough penicillin to completely treat Albert's infection, so they tried to extract penicillin from his urine, but that didn't work. After that, Albert had a re-lapse and died. Florey realized that he had to mass produce much more penicillin for it to work on adults.