Antonio Maria Valsalva | Italian anatomist | Britannica (original) (raw)

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association with Morgagni

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  In Giovanni Battista Morgagni
  Valsalva, whom he assisted in preparing the latter’s celebrated De Aure Humana (1704; Anatomy and Diseases of the Ear). Morgagni then succeeded Valsalva in his position as anatomical demonstrator, but after a time he gave up that post and spent several years in Padua, where…
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treatment technique for eustachian tube disorders

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  In human ear: Eustachian tube
  …maneuver, named for Italian physician-anatomist Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666–1723), who recommended it for clearing pus from an infected middle ear.
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