discoveries of autopsy

  • 300

    study how organs and nerves worked

  • Jan 1, 1200

    Autopsies were done is Europe to preserve bodies better

  • Jan 1, 1302

    first forensic autopsies was done in Bologna to determine if a death being investigated was caused by fault or not

  • Jan 1, 1502

    physician carried out 15 autopsies to determine cause of death

    1443-1502
  • Jan 1, 1543

    autopsies were used to distinguished abnormal anatomy in humans

  • physical evidence was first recorded in a crime scene leading to the discovering of a murderer

  • Rudolf Virchow wrote the standards of autopsies which are the standards are still used today

  • American physician Richard Cabot studies 1000 autopsies and finds out that 40% of the bodies that a incorrect cause of death

  • Toxicology tests are effective after a pathologist in Ohio detects cyanide after a autopsy of a patent John Powell

  • CT Scan is used to reveal the real cause of death of King Tut. He died due to a infection of the leg

    2005-2007