Walter Freeman’s Head
Imagine if Dr. Keen had accidentally paralyzed President Cleveland during that super-secret surgery! There’d be a lot more press about that, I bet.
On the other hand, considering this was major surgery and it took place in 1897, maybe little Walter came out ahead of the game just by surviving it. How did they anesthetize babies in 1897, anyway?
The lovely punchline is they didn’t anesthetize babies in 1897. Because, you know, they’re too small to understand anything so they must not feel pain, right?
I was kind of afraid that might be the answer. Could this explain a lot about Walter?