Observation Anatomo-Pathologique par Mr. J. B. Mazzoni Dissecteur en Anatomie à l'Hôpital des Enfants-trouvés, Professeur de Chirurgie Substitut aux Hôpitaux de S.te M. Neuve, des Enfants-trouvés , et de S.t Jean de Dieu de Florence. MAZZONI, Jean Baptiste (Giovanni Battista)

THE CURIOUS CASE OF A FEMALE NEWBORN WITH A LARGE SACROCOCCYGEAL TERATOMA. A rare medical imprint relating to the fields of obstetrics, rare fetal tumors and teratology (abnormalities, human congenital abnormalities, malformations); a 1810 medical report including the autopsy carried out on the cadaver of a newborn with a large tumor, namely sacrococcygeal teratoma, written by Giovanni Battista Mazzoni, who was a famous surgeon dissector and obstetrics professor in Florence. MAZZONI, Jean Baptiste (Giovanni Battista). Observation Anatomo-Pathologique par Mr. J. B. Mazzoni Dissecteur en Anatomie à l'Hôpital des Enfants-trouvés, Professeur de Chirurgie Substitut aux Hôpitaux de S.te M. Neuve, des Enfants-trouvés , et de S.t Jean de Dieu de Florence. Florence, De l'Imprimerie de Bourg-Toussaints, 1810. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4to, 8 pp. (text in French) and a final leaf with 3 hand-coloured engraved plates signed "B. B. f.". Contemp. half-leather and marbled paper, endpaper of nice early patterned paper. Very good. Very rare. In this rare pamphlet, Giovanni Battista Mazzoni, professor of obstetrics in Florence, discusses a sacrococcygeal teratoma, that is a dropsical tumor of the sacrum that hung down to the heels of a newborn. The midwife made incisions, and the newborn, seized by convulsions, died 48 hours later. The author adds that the spinal column was completely intact. The boy had only one kidney. Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) is a type of tumor known as a teratoma that develops at the base of the coccyx (tailbone) and is thought to be primarily derived from remnants of the primitive streak. As the author points out in the beginning of the text, he wrote the report in French in order to please "His Majesty" Napoleon after his latest conquests. OCLC shows 1 copy only in North America: College of Physicians of Philadelphia. REFERENCES: Cesare Taruffi, Storia della Teratologia, 1894.