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Many years after, in 1740, Morgagni edited a collected edition of Valsalva's writings, with important additions to the treatise on the ear, and with a memoir of the author.

When Valsalva was transferred to Parma Morgagni succeeded to his anatomical demonstratorship.

At this period he enjoyed a high repute in Bologna ; he was made president of the Academia Enquietorum when in his twenty-fourth year, and he is said to have signalized his tenure of the presidential chair by discouraging abstract speculations, and by setting the fashion towards exact anatomical observation and reasoning.