EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION OF PARAFFIN OIL TUMORS IN MONKEYS

Abstract

By this time, medical profession has become thoroughly aware of danger which lurks in surgical use of paraffin for cosmetic purposes, but, although by now almost an old story, discussion pro and con still goes on. Thus, one of most recent pronouncements is that of Davis, 1 who concluded that for paraffinomas to develop in skin there must be a predisposition on part of patient, since majority of people into whose skins paraffin is injected do not develop paraffinomas. (The reader must keep in mind that we are speaking now of solid paraffin and not paraffin oil.) He concludes, on other hand, that the affliction is common enough to clothe procedure of paraffin injection with a distinct risk, and that occasionally even epithelioma may develop. Oppenheimer, 2 too, has voiced a condemnatory note. On other hand, an Englishman,