One of the most (0) AMAZING advances ever made in medicine began with an 1EXPECT event. Sir Alexander Fleming had been looking into the 2POSSIBLE of finding a better way of killing germs when he came upon something 3PUZZLE in his laboratory. Some mould that had 4ACCIDENT landed on one of the dishes appeared to be killing the bacteria he was growing.
At first, he was 5EXCITE about his 6DISCOVER and grew more of the mould, giving it the name of penicillin. However, in his view, it was only really 7EFFECT as an antiseptic against certain skin 8INFECT and soon lost interest. It wasn’t until ten years later that two other scientists managed to isolate the substance that killed the bacteria, and successfully began to save people’s lives with it.