The story of breast enhancement begins in 1890 when Austrian doctor Robert Gersuny began injecting paraffin into woman's breasts.  Initially the enhancement results were quite good but over time the breasts grew lumpy and hard. Infection rates of the paraffin injections were also alarmingly high. By the 1920s paraffin breast enhancement had been completely abandoned. However, he idea of breast enhancement had not. Surgeons began experimenting with harvesting fatty tissue from the abdomen and buttocks and transplanting it into the breasts. Unfortunately, much of the transplanted fat was reabsorbed by the body. This left early breast enhancement patients with asymmetrical breasts as well as scars where the harvesting had taken place.