Antonio Maria Valsalva
Italian anatomist
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association with Morgagni
- 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
- 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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