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A Roman Physician named Antistius performed the very first official autopsy on the murdered body of Julius Caesar.
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A Roman orator and jurists uses basic forensics to render an innocent party.
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Fortunato Fidelis and Paolo Zacchia lay the foundation of modern pathology by studying diseased bodies and their structures.
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Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele first develops chemical testing to detect arsenic in corpses.
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Mathieu Orfila also known as the father of forensic toxicology published the very first scientific treatise for toxicology.
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Henry Goddard became the first person to connect a bullet to a specific murder weapon.
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Sir Francis Galton develops the first type of fingerprint matching forensics.
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The Henry Classification System developed by Sir Edward Henry was adopted to be the standard system for criminal fingerprinting techniques worldwide.
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Edmond Locard created the basic principles of forensic science. He was known to say that every contact leaves a trace and was known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France."
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