169 years later, Tiny Tim gets a diagnosis
Monday, March 5, 2012 - 19:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Plucky, ailing Tiny Tim is one of the most enduring characters to come out of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella "A Christmas Carol." But Dickens never explains why Tiny Tim wears leg braces and uses a crutch, nor does he make clear what will kill the young boy if the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge doesn't change his ways.