Alfred Biesiadecki (13 March 1839 – 31 March 1889) was a Polish

pathologist Pathology is the study of the causal, causes and effects of disease or injury. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when us ...

born in

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. He studied medicine at the

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, earning his medical doctorate in 1862. In 1865 he became an assistant at the institute of pathological anatomy in

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under

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. From 1868 to 1876 he was a professor of pathological anatomy at the

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, afterwards moving to

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where he served as ''Protomedikus'', working as an organizer of health services. Biesiadecki was a pioneer of Polish

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, remembered for contributions made in research of skin diseases. His name is associated with "Biesiadecki's fossa", a

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recess that is also known as the iliacosubfascial

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. He published medical treatises in Polish and German.

Selected publications

* ''Über das Chiasma nervorum opticorum des Menschen und der Tiere'' (Involving the chiasma nervorum opticorum of humans and animals), 1860 * ''Untersuchungen über die Gallen- und Lymphgefässe der Menschenleber in pathologischen Zuständen'' (Studies on the bile and

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of the human

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in pathological states), 1867 * ''Beiträge zur physiologischen Anatomie der Haut'' (Contributions to the physiological anatomy of the skin), 1867 * ''Untersuchungen aus dem pathologisch-anatomischen Institut in Krakau'' (Investigations of the Pathological-anatomical Institute in Kraków), 1872 * ''Anatomija patologiczna gruczołów skórnych'', 1874

References

Historia Anatomia Patologiczna Polskiej
(translated biography)
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