Jean Baptiste Émile Vidal (18 June 1825 – 16 June 1893) was a French dermatologist who was a native of Paris.He studied medicine in Tours and Paris, becoming médecin des hôpitaux in 1862.
For much of his career he was associated with the Hôpital Saint-Louis (1867–1890) in Paris.
In 1883 he became a member of the Académie de Médecine.
He is remembered for his investigations of lupus and skin lichenification.
His name is associated with "pityriasis circinata et marginata of Vidal", a disorder that is synonymous to pityriasis rosea, and "Vidal's disease", an historical name for lichen simplex chronicus.
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