Forensic Science

  • 280

    First Autopsy

    First Autopsy
    Greek physician Galen of Pergamum was one of the first to correlate signs and symptoms to death and performed some of the earliest autopsies
  • 400

    Physicians are in charge

    Germans and Slavs said physicians are by law the only ones allowed to determine cause of death
  • Feb 14, 600

    First use of finger print identification

  • Apr 11, 1248

    Read all about it

    First published forensic science book--by Chinese
  • San Fransisco

    First US city to use photographs in criminal case
  • Blood

    Blood
    Human blood grouping ABO--blood stains
  • Hair

    Identification using hair first used
  • Careful where you leave your DNA

    Careful where you leave your DNA
    DNA profiling
  • Toxicology

    Toxicology
    Toxicology tests now effective in determining poisons etc
  • King Tut

    Autopsy of late King Tut reveals cause of death to be an infection in his leg