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700 BCE
Forensic Science
Chinese used finger prints to establish identity of documents with clay sculptures but there wasn't a formal classification system. -
300 BCE
Autopsy
Erasistratus and Herophilus pioneered the anatomical by dissecting cadavers to study how organs and nerves worked -
Jan 13, 1248
Forensic Science
First forensic science manual published by the Chinese. This was the first known record of medical knowledge being used to solve criminal cases. -
Period: Jan 1, 1443 to Dec 31, 1502
Autopsy
Florentine physician carried out 15 autopsies to determine cause of death -
Aug 18, 1543
Autopsy
Andreas Vesalius used autopsies to distinguished abnormal anatomy in humans -
Forensic Science
Coroner's act established that coroners' were to determine the causes of sudden, violent, and unnatural deaths. Arthur Conan Doyle also publishes the first Sherlock Holmes story. -
Autopsy
American physician Richard Cabot studies 1000 autopsies and finds out that 40% of the bodies that a incorrect cause of death -
Forensic Science
First police crime lab established in Los Angeles. -
Autopsy
Toxicology tests are effective after a pathologist in Ohio detects cyanide after a autopsy of a patent John Powell -
Forensic Science
An FBI DNA database, NIDIS, enabling interstate cooperation in linking crimes, was put into practice.
