The eponym, Vidian artery, is derived from the Italian surgeon and anatomist Vidus Vidius.
After practicing at Florence and Rome in Italy, he was invited by Francis I of France to come to Paris to be a personal doctor and teach at the Collège de France.
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This book was one of the best illustrated at the time and was based on works of Hippocrates, Galen, and Oribasius.
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While in Paris, Guido Guidi befriended artist Benvenuto Cellini and published a book on surgery, Chirurgia, in 1544.
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