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
Alan Muir (anatomist) A. Swain, George Montgomery and Arthur Lancelot Craig-Bennett. He died after a short illness on 14 February 1974 aged 49. He was married with three children. Alan Muir (anatomist) Professor Alan Ramsey Muir FRSE (1925–1974) was a 20th-century British anatomist. He was one of the first lecturers to instruct in the use of the electron microscope. He was born in 1925 at Ramsey on the Isle of Man. He was educated at St John Deans's Grammar School in Northwich then King William's College in the Isle of Man. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MB