Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-22

New York.-(Specif' Correspond
ence. Recently the story of a young
theatrical woman who sacrificed q per-
fectly good face in the hands of a
paraffin fiend and then brought suit
for thousands of dollars worth or
damages attracted attention to this
amazingly widespread practice upon
woman's faces-aye, mems, too. For
the vanity that is all vanity knows
not sex, according to statistics on this
harmful practice of injecting parattln
to fill out hollow cheeks, hollows under
the eyes, in the neck, and in an at
tempt to remove lines and remold
noses.
I set about upon an investigation
cruise, as it seemed inevitable to me
that the practice was as widespread
as reports would have it. ] found it
even more appalling. One institution
of the Quack advertising species IN this
city alone performs an average of 200
of these operations a month.
| had fancied, as you do perhaps,
that the patients would be older WON
en-, grown desperate with sagging
cheeks and other disparaging features
of middle age. On the contrary, l find
the majority recruited from the young
girl class, bent upon acquiring a
rounded face and homeless neck in the
briefest space of time possible.
Tales of Suffering
I saw nearly one hundred photo
graphs of patients of one ethical sur
geon to whom some of these same
Young women had gone in desperation
to have removed the paraffin grown
into solid humps of wax. Frightfully
J:-+a-tnI fonoC rvDro nJnFr,raA ana
alone of which would be convincing
enough of the criminality Of this prac-
tice.
One girl of 81 had three ounces of
the distorting material removed after
having carried it in buIges at the side
of the mouth for almost two years.
Her photograph tells the tale of what
suffering she must have undergone.
One pathetic case was that Of o
girl Of II who, through ignorance and
desperation, was persuaded to have
paraffin injected into her face TO cure
pimples. Her face was a pathetic
sight.
l interviewed several plastic SIR.
geons of high medical standing, who
bv the way. are rs far removed from
the advertising beauty doctors" al
the most ethical urgeon from the
patent medicine doctor, and found
them unanimous on the opinion tha'
the use of ~paraffin in any case j.
wrong and injurious.
Always Results in D%eformity
DIR. II. Lyons Hunt, one of the fore
most plastic surgeons of the countr,
who removes pounds of paraffin yearl,
from the faces Of the unfortunate
ones, said: II would like to see legis
lation against the practice Of injectin,
paraffin. There is no legitimate use TO.
IL in the face, and I've never seen
case vet that did not result in de
formity. No reputable medical man viii
do it. Years ago surgeons experiment
ed with it for saddle back noses, bu
abandoned it entirely finding it un
successful.
Anywhere from two to ten year
after the operation the patient begin
TO suffer with deformities. and tn
paraffin masses cause tumor,
1.-THE paraffin is injected in liqui
form and hot. Being liquid, the opera
for can only guess how much to 10
iect. often leaving the patient under
corrected or overcorrected. Sometime
il is fatal. air getting mixed with tn
naraffin and into the blood vessels
Sometimes small particles get into tn
blood blocking the circulation. Again
interfering with the function of tn
mart treated so, the muscles are ren
dered useless.
Sometimes Causes Gangrene
'Paraffin is nothing but melted wa
which in time becomes hard humps
pulling down upon the most pendar
part Of the face.
"Sometimes it is put in with immt
diate and marked inflammation. 1t ma
be absorbed with poisonous effect t
the system, and abcess formation wit
great scars after the abcess has sub
sided.
'Too, it sometimes causes gangren
! of all parts around it 1t has to b