Giovanni Antonio Galli (1708–1782) was a physician who pioneered the teaching of obstetrics in Bologna using three-dimensional models.
She had learned from her husband and from her own experience in dissection, and gained a European reputation.
[2] In 1757 Galli was made Professor of Obstetrics at the Bologna Institute in the Palazzo Poggi, and the next year Pope Benedict XIV overrode opposition and established a school of obstetrics at the Institute.
The Pope acquired Galli's collection of teaching models for use in the Institute's school.
[4] Galli invented a machine to simulate the birthing process for teaching medical students and midwives.