How could Scrooge make Tiny Tim well if even the best medicine money could buy in Victorian England was leeches, breathing mercury, and amputation?

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

I think it's a metaphor.
If things remain unchanged death is assured.

AlasPoorYorick · 51-55, M

A metaphor ain’t making those legs of his well. @Picklebobble2