Medicine: Plastic Surgery

Sadie Holland, a stenographer and 30, had bow legs and a burn-scarred shoulder.

Last week she had a painful shoulder, no legs at all and was reported dying from "plastic" operations performed for $800 at the Chicago Osteopathic Hospital by Doctors Henry Junius Schireson and S. D.

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Dr. Schireson, whom the American Medical Association has ostracized for years but whom it could not prevent practicing in Illinois, has straightened Actress Fanny Brice's nose, removed fat from "Peaches" Browning's legs, and sued Lady Diana Manners for payment of work on her face....

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