Antonio Maria Valsalva sense of smell, but he recognized the prodromal symptoms, in the form of dyslalia, of the disease that would eventually cause his death from stroke at Bologna in 1723. Valsalva was buried in the church of San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna. The Valsalva family donated a collection of dried anatomical specimens to be used for educational purposes to the Institute of Sciences founded in 1711. The wear of this material that followed possibly inspired the work of the Bolognese school of wax modeling and the artists Ercole Lelli and Giovanni and Anna Morandi Manzolini. This new anatomic collection includes models
Ancient Egyptian anatomical studies Egyptian nation were the first to make a written record of anatomical studies. Manetho is thought to have recorded the work of an early anatomist. In his work "History of Egypt" Manetho states the pharaoh Djer was an anatomist, although a source considers the likelihood of the pharaoh being an anatomist to be low. Djer is stated to have been the first to have made a written work on the study of anatomy, entitled "Practical Medicine and Anatomical Book", which is known of, but not extant, although this attribution may represent an honorific observance indicating the book was written within