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A case of sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome, with a folding plate

Name: A case of sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome, with a folding plate
SKU: 233

Price

€ 275,00

A dissertation by Swedish physician F. Josef A. Rossi (1774-1854) describing a case of sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome: a rare condition in which a fetus's legs are fused together, creating the appearance of a mermaid's tail.

Rossi is probably best remembered as the personal physician of King Charles XIII and crown prince Charles August.

Title

Franz Joseph Anton Rossi.

Dissertatio inauguralis medica sistens foetus monstrosi Holmiae nati descriptionem et delineationem.

Jena, Prager, 1800.

Physical Description

4to (19,8 x 16,4 cm).23, [1 blank] pp. With a folding engraved plate. Self wrappers, with the spine strengthened with a strip of paper. Paper browned and foxed.

References

VD18 15118940; for Rossi see: Josef A Rossi, https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/artikel/6954, Swedish biographical dictionary (art. by Leif Gidlöf), retrieved 2022-08-28.