Anatomical machines Giuseppe Salerno, an anatomist from Palermo, around 1763. Some legends, disproved by modern studies, account for the direct involvement of the prince in the building process, while in fact he only bought them. A contract, found in the notary archive of Naples, states that di Sangro provided to Salerno metal wire and wax for the work. They were described in detail for the first time in the "Breve Nota" (short note), an 18th-century guide to Palazzo di Sangro and its neigh chapel. It also accounts the existence of a third machine, a fetus complete with placenta: it was exposed together
Alan Muir (anatomist) 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 ChB in 1947. After 18 months as House Surgeon at Northampton Infirmary he then served 18 months National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps at