Cajazeira sliced deep into his patient’s leg, releasing a mottled mixture of blood and foul-smelling pus that had collected in the abscess. As the doctor worked to insert a drainage tube, swatting away the legions of piums and borrachudo flies that had been attracted to the stench, Roosevelt did not cry out in pain or utter a word of complaint. “Father’s courage was an inspiration never to be forgotten by any of us,” Kermit would later write.
