The Forrest City times., 1902-02-07
FACES FIXED IN VIENNA.
Beauty Factory Where Objectionabie Features Are Transformed Ac-
 cordinE to Order.

| Persons whose features are not all they desi;e may find some hope of future beauty in the announcement from Vienna that parattin k bt ing used ID that city to correct facial irregu- larfties due to lack of bone. The paratfin in d melted state is in iected with a syringe, and settles upon the bone, becoming an addition to it. While still warm it is nodded with delft fingers, and the person who goes into his physicians office with short nose or a retreating chin comes out with his face built up to suit him. says the New York Commercial Advertiser.
 Physicians of scientific attainment are inclined to regard with scorn any practice which has for it's sole ob- Jeet the increase of beauty So very naturally those questioned to-day about this subject refuse to let their names marks upon what they con sider very frivolous matter.
 There k no doubt but that the building up of bones bV the use of paraffin k practical to considerable degree, Was the declaration of one doctor The injection of paraflin need not be followed by any i'll re- sult>, either-I mean in the way of inflammation. The possibilities of making over faces by the application of paratiin are almost limitless It is not at all unlikely. however that the possessor of a wax nose, for instance. might discover it to be rather an un- stable piece of property"
 Another physician found food for bis humor in the subject. II suppose there is no reason to doubt the cor reetness of the report" said he, but think of the disasters that might be- fall paratfin chin or nose. Suppose the owner of such d nose goes into d football game. His best friends won't recognize him when he comes out. And suppose a man with a waxen chin falls asleep before his grate. When he awakes he'll proba- bly find that his chin has melted and has moved down to the region of his Adams apple"
 The Vienna eorre> pondent of the Medical Record describes the method of injecting the para fin as follows:
 The practice consists in the sub cutaneous injection of preparation of parattia over bony excavations which have resulted either after oper- ation or from disease or from con l genital causes.
 The injection of paraflin has been accomplished now frequently for sad dle-nOse with most remarkable re- suits, and. as l have seen, with abso- lute correction of the deformity. The needle iS inserted over the gla- bella and K then passed down to the lowest point of the excavation, and as the preparation is being slowly in- jected the needle is slowly with drawn, care being exerted that the injection iufiltrates only the sub- | cutaneouS connective tissue With the fingers of the left hand, and while still warm, the paraffin is molded.
 ''Practically no irritation occurs either as an immediate or subsequent result, those cases which have been observed now for over year show a perfect tolerance on the part of the tissues and permanent core etion of the deformity.
 This same procedure has beed ac- complished in order to elevate d de pressed scar after operation for dis case of the ma old, but with less success, but l believe it adaptable to many other deformites which hith- erto have remained uncorrected The ! preparation is made by mixing yo- ! gether the solid and the soft para fir ot commerce until mixture is ob- tained which has d melting point of Al degrees (. TLe paratfin is then l sterililed and with gentle warming becomes sufficiently fluid to use in a syringe. Needless to say. it is well to warm the syringe also. and for this purpose hot water answers every requisite.'