Seiffert examined a case of this nature in a young man of nineteen, and, contrary to Kopp's supposition, found that in some skin from over the left second rib the elastic fibers were quite normal, but there was transformation of the connective tissue of the dermis into an unformed tissue like a myxoma, with total disappearance of the connective-tissue bundles.

Laxity of the skin after distention is often seen in multipara, both in the breasts and in the abdominal walls, and also from obesity, but in all such cases the skin falls in folds, and does not have a normal appearance like that of the true "elastic-skin man." Occasionally abnormal development of the scalp is noticed.

McDowall of twenty-two.

On each side of the median line of the head there were five deep furrows, more curved and shorter as the distance from the median line increased.

In the illustration the hair in the furrows is left longer than that on the rest of the head.