Anna Morandi Manzolini Poggi in Bologna. One is a self-portrait, in which she depicts herself at work dissecting a human brain; the other is of her husband, engaged in similar activity. Her wax models were highly prized while she was alive and long after her death. Some of her anatomical models were so skillfully molded that they were extremely difficult to distinguish from the actual body parts from which they were copied. Furthermore, her acute skill at dissection resulted in her discovery of several previously unknown anatomical parts, including the termination of the oblique muscle of the eye. She held the distinction of
Richard Saunders (anatomist) Saunders. Richard Saunders (anatomist) Prof Richard Lorraine de Chasteney Holbourne Saunders FRSE FRMS (1908–1995) was a 20th century South African anatomist. He received international acclaim for his x-ray and electron microscopy investigations of neurological conditions. He was born in Grahamstown in South Africa the son of Col Frederick Anastasius Saunders (an army surgeon) and his wife, Lucy Anderson Meiklejohn. Richard studied Medicine at Rhodes University then Edinburgh University graduating MB ChB in 1932 and gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1940 with a dissertationon spina bifida. He lectured in Anatomy at Edinburgh University 1933 to 1937. In 1937 he emigrated to