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A cramped London hospital laboratory in 1928: a scarred dark-wood bench, a brass gas burner with a small blue flame, stacked glass dishes, a rack of test tubes in a wooden block, a brass microscope, an enamel discard bin, sooty sash window. the mould colony, the clear band and the crowded cream dots all lie on the same single sheet of jelly inside the one dish. the clear band touches the mould colony on one side and the nearest cream dots on the other, so the three read as one continuous surface. the man's fingers grip the rim of that same dish, the dish tilted toward the window light. The glass dish is about 9 cm across, the size of a coffee saucer; the mould colony is thumbnail-sized and the bacterial colonies are pinhead dots. 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