Giovanni Antonio Galli 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 on anatomy. She had learned from her husband and from her own experience in dissection, and gained a European reputation. Anna Morandi was widowed in 1755. Soon after, she
Arthur Robinson (anatomist) Arthur Robinson (anatomist) Prof Arthur Robinson FRSE FRCS FRCSE LLD (1862–1948) was a British anatomist who served as President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1920 to 1922. He created the terms "opposed placentae" and "conjoined placentae". He was born on 8 April 1862 in Manchester, the son of James Robinson. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MBChB in 1883. He then became a Demonstrator in William Turner's anatomy class. He then went to Owen's College in Manchester as a Demonstrator to Professor A.H. Young and the Victoria University in Manchester. He received his