Pierre Nicolas Gerdy

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Pierre Nicolas Gerdy (1797–1856) was a French physician from Loches-sur-Ource. He taught at the Paris Faculty of Medicine and worked with top surgeons like Lisfranc, Velpeau and Dupuytren. The anatomist Paul Broca was his assistant for a few years in the 1840s. Gerdy was a surgeon, anatomist, pathologist and physiologist who also collaborated with artists and sculptors. In 1829 he published Anatomie des formes extérieures du corps humain, appliqué à la peinture, à la sculpture et à la chirurgie, a book showing how anatomy relates to painting, sculpture and surgery. Some anatomical terms are named after him, though many have been replaced by modern clinical terms.