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omist, born — ; died 1569. The Vidian 

 artery, canal, and nerve especially pre- 

 serve his name in anatomy. He was a 

 professor of medicine in the College of 

 France, and was succeeded by Sylvius. 



Vieussens, Reymond. — A French physician, 

 born 1641 ; died 1716. The valve of 

 Vieussens, loop of Vieussens, and sev- 

 eral other anatomical names are given 

 for him. He wrote on diseases of the 

 heart, and made various researches in 

 anatomy, also in chemical matters. 

 Originally he was a theologian, then a 

 physician, and as such a professor at 

 Montpellier; next an army surgeon and 

 travelling physician, one after the other, 

 and finally physician-in-ordinary at 

 Paris. 



Virchow, Rudolph. — A German anatomist 

 and pathologist, born in Pomerania in 

 1821 ; died in 1902. Virchow has been 

 styled the father of modern pathology. 

 His first edition of "Cellular Pathology" 

 appeared in 1858, and his extensive 

 Vv'ork on "Tumors" in 1866. He was a 

 famous author and teacher. The angle 

 formed by the meeting of two lines, one 

 passing through the most prominent 

 part of the superior alveolar process and 

 the naso-frontal suture, the other 

 through the upper border of the ex- 

 ternal auditory meatus and the lower 

 border of the orbit, is known as the 

 Virchow-Holder's angle. 



Wachendorf, Evardus Jacobus von.— A 

 German anatomist of the eighteenth 

 century. In 1737 he discovered the 

 pupillary membrane. 



