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1249 BCE
The great italian surgeon
famous for his anticipation of the antiseptic treatment of wounds -
1248 BCE
The Chinese book
Describes how to distinguish drowning from strangulation , the first recorded application of medical knowledge. -
1248 BCE
The Chinese book
Describes how to distinguish drowning from strangulation, the first recorded medical knowledge to the solution of crime. -
1000 BCE
Roman courts
An attorney in roman court, showed that bloody palm prints were meant to frame a blind man of his mothers murder. -
700 BCE
Fingerprints and identity
Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and clay scuptures. -
300 BCE
Forensic techniques
Documented details of chinese using forensic techniques to solve a murder case. -
100 BCE
Evidence of fingerprints
In early paintings and rock carvings of prehistoric humans -
Karl Wilhem Scheele
discovers that he could change arsenious oxide to arsenious acid , the discovery later plays a big part in forensic detection of arsenic. -
Eugene Francois
Suspension of arrest and a jail sentence, makes deal with police to establish the first detective force. Surete of Paris -
Voice print Identification
Murray Hill initiated the study of voice-print Identification -
Thomas Bewick
uses his own fingerprints to identity books he published -
AFIS
Computer data base of fingerprints was developed, which came to be known as the Automated Fingerprint Identification System AFIS. Present day, there are nearly 70 million cards, or nearly 700 million individual fingerprints entered in AFIS. -
Alac Jeffreys
Alec Jeffreys developed the first DNA profiling test. -
DNA evidence
Mitochondria DNA evidence is used in court for the first time in the U.S -
NDIS
An FBI DNA database,NDIS which is the National DNA Index System, is put into practice