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...ever disputed the claim, which Henry Junius Schireson once made under oath, that he is "king of the quacks." He has practiced medicine for 40 years, the last ten in Philadelphia, without a degree. He has long been the untroubled butt of pained outcries by the Journal of the American Medical Association, of several legal charges and trials (for mayhem and dope peddling). He has been the subject of a movie (False Faces) in which a patient shoots a doctor after losing a suit for malpractice. Last month the Philadelphia Record began a series of articles on Quack Schireson...
From Dope to Plastics. Schireson, claimed the Record, came to the U.S. from Russia in 1889, got about a year's medical education at night school. He was twice arrested in Baltimore for peddling dope. In Pittsburgh he jumped bail when charged with practicing medicine on immigrants with a machine to cure syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer, other ailments. In Manhattan he was jailed for establishing a Madison Avenue practice without a license. His pickings as a "specialist" during six busy weeks in Utica totaled $36,000. Before coming to Philadelphia, said the Record, Schireson made "one of the largest medical...
Until the Record articles began, Philadelphia had received Schireson with open pocketbooks. A thrifty man, Schireson paid aging Dr. Nathan Smilie $25 a week for the use of his name, carried on in an elegant office while Dr. Smilie stayed home. Schireson advertised himself as a kind of super-beautician: he claimed to have glorified Greta Garbo, Peaches Browning (face fixed and fat legs pared), the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Lady Diana Manners, Mary Pickford and a politician listed as "Mr. X."* Most of these people had never heard of Schireson. But his bona fide patients claim that Schireson...
Rotary Reconstructed. To get a line on Schireson, the Record sent a patient to consult him about making her neck prettier. She found a "heavyset man, sixtyish in appearance, dressed in youthful tweeds. His ready smile revealed excellent bridge-work." He said that a neck treatment would merely give her "a perfect neck, a throat of vibrant youth, topped by an aged face." She should have "a complete rotary reconstruction" to make her face as beautiful as her eyes. "Your eyes alone," said Schireson, "would be the dream of any plastic surgeon...
Three days after the consultation, Schireson suggested "five corrections" at $250 each. The lady asked time to talk it over with her husband. Instead, she talked it over with the Record...