Forensic Science

By t.why.ler
  • First Autopsy
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    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