Origins of the Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA) with special attention paid to the work of Edward Piotrowski.
Maciej Tęsiorowski, Kazimierz Rembiasz, Antoni Czupryna, Wiesław Pawlik, Ryszard W Gryglewski
Author Information
Maciej Tęsiorowski: Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University Department of Orthopaedics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Zakopane, Poland.
Kazimierz Rembiasz: 2nd Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland.
Antoni Czupryna: 1st Department of Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland.
Wiesław Pawlik: Department of Physiology, Medical Faculty, Jagiellonian University School of Medicine, Kraków, Poland.
Ryszard W Gryglewski: Department of History of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland. ryszard.gryglewski@uj.edu.pl.
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA) is now an obvious part of forensic medicine, a discipline with its own methodology, scientific aims and practical goals. Roots of it are in experimental work of Polish physician Eduard Piotrowski, with results published in 1895. Significance of it was not immediately recognized. In this paper we aim to show why and how Piotrowski's model for BPA was finally incorporated into the realm of medical tradition.
