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Geronimo Mercuriali was a physician who was born in Forlì in 1530. He was a student of the renowned physician Girolamo Cardano, and he went on to become a professor of medicine at the University of Padua. Mercuriali was a prolific writer, and he wrote several books on medicine, including De Arte Medica (1571), which was a comprehensive textbook on medicine that was used as a standard text for centuries.