Posted Mar 5, 2013, 1:51 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Paramount, CA
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Acid Lotion....
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
A few items from the Times:
One tenant of the Consolidated Realty Building was the notorious "Dr." Gertrude Steele, regularly in trouble since at least since 1908 for botched facelifts and other treatments.
LAT 12-18-1919
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With research credit going to Mr Wilshire....allow me to add:
According to a 1927 article in a Milwaukee paper Dr. Steel had used carbolic acid on the man's freckled face. It was absorbed into the skin, migrated to the brain and killed him.
Dr. Steele later fled the US for Germany. I hate to call someone names but how does quack sound? You go to have your freckles removed, end up dead and your shady lady Dr. on the next rain headed east. Noir? Very!!
Last edited by DouglasUrantia; Mar 5, 2013 at 2:03 AM.
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