Wenzel, after an unsuccessful attempt to overcome a laparocele by the injection of paraffin, a year later performed a radical operation of the parts. The excised tissue at the site of the injection showed deposits of the broken-up mass of paraffin, each being enveloped by a capsule of connective tissue without any signs of ramifying bands, and hence decided against the belief of the resultant tissue formation. Eschweiler, the latest authority on the above question, after examining microscopically a portion of paraffin-injected tissue that had been carried “_in situ_” on the bridge of the nose for about one year, concurs absolutely with the connective-tissue replacement belief. From the foregoing it may be definitely accepted that while there may be an encapsulation or encystment of the injected mass, be it what it may so long as it belongs to the paraffin group, there is always a ramification of the mass by the formation of the strands of new connective tissue which eventually in a month or more, according to the amount of the mass, develops to a size corresponding to the latter or even beyond the size of the latter, as will be mentioned later, and that in all cases the paraffin is ultimately and almost, if not completely, crowded out of the area occupied by the injection, and that its disappearance is accountable to absorption. This absorption, following such an injection, is productive of no harm to the human economy, and the new tissue caused to be formed by such injection truly enhances the cosmetic and surgical value of the method inasmuch as an encapsulated mass of paraffin is liable to displacement, spreading, and irregularities, should it be subjected at any time to external violence. Such violence, again, would lead to the irritation and inflammation of such cyst wall, causing an undue crowding upon the parts injected and possible gangrene of that part of the wall upon which such pressure was brought to bear, leading to unsightly attachment and ultimate contraction of the skin where bound down by the inflammation, or even evacuation by the absorption of gangrenous material and resultant abscess. That this absorption or disintegration of paraffin is of no consequence may be proven by all the early cases in which such injections were used. Gersuny’s first case, having been done May, 1899, shows no diminution of the prothetic site at the end of two years. The same may be said of the hundreds of cases done by other operators. The greater question in the mind of the author is what will be the ultimate behavior of this new connective tissue.