Sal Marshall (born 1911), born Salvatore Marcigliano, was an Italian-American resident physician in Brooklyn, New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.
Biography[]
Salvatore Marcigliano was born in Catania, Sicily in 1911, and he emigrated to the United States as a young age and settled in Brooklyn, New York City. He officially qualified as a physician, and he opened a clinic on Nassau Street and Farragut Street, earning extra money on the side by prescribing painkillers to junkies and addicts, including the heroin and morphine-addicted Brooklyn police chief.