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Arch Dermatol. 2009;145(7):747.

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THE JOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS DISEASES
VOL. XXVII
JULY, 1909
NO. 7

November, 1908.

DR. GEORGE T. HARDING in the chair.

Paraffine Prosthesis. Adverse Effect of. Presented by DR. J. C. WHITE.

For the removal of wrinkles of the forehead, a young woman consulted an advertising medical company. To accomplish their removal injection of paraffine was recommended as a safe and effectual procedure. Soon after the injection of the paraffine, however, much of it gravitated down the sides of the nose into the subcutaneous tissue of the cheeks. In an attempt to remove the disastrous effects of the paraffine the same medical company further aggravated the condition by making a perpendicular incision, two inches in length, over the mid-frontal region. On healing, this incision, which was devoid of any benefit, left a depressed puckered circatrix [sic], greatly augmenting the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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