Quite early I began to look about for such a material and
some method by which scars could be more or less obliterated.
I tried paraffin, but without much success. When used to
fill up a scar it would generally find a way to wriggle out of
the position it was placed in and was anything but satisfactory.
The removal of cicatrices and bringing the skin
together over their former position was not more successful,
for the new wound generally managed to accommodate itself
to the previous conditions, and the deformity was but little
improved.