Giovanni Antonio Galli combining theory and practice in his teaching method, and at that time unusual in teaching the subject in a medical and surgical school. He died in 1782. Citations Sources Giovanni Antonio Galli Giovanni Antonio Galli (1708–1782) was a physician who pioneered the teaching of obstetrics in Bologna using three-dimensional models. Giovanni Antonio Galli was born in 1708. He was appointed a Professor in the School of Surgery of the University of Bologna. Galli opened a school on obstetrics in his house. He encouraged Anna Morandi Manzolini, wife and assistant of the wax anatomical modeler Giovanni Manzolini, to give private lectures
James Wilson (anatomist) James Wilson (anatomist) Dr James Wilson (1765–1821) was a British anatomist. A pupil of John Hunter, he took over Hunter's position teaching anatomy at the Great Windmill Street School in London, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is eponym of Wilson's muscle in the constrictor urethræ. His anatomical collection was donated to the Surgeon's Hall in Edinburgh and it is now known as the James Wilson Collection. He was born in Beith, Ayrshire. His family moved to London in his youth, and he then became assistant to Dr William Cumberland Cruikshank: he made dissections for Cruikshank