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Greek doctor Erasistratus discovers that the pulse of his patients increase when they lied. (First lie detector test)
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The medical examiner of Julius Caesar determined that out of 23 wounds only one was fatal.
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Quintilian, an attorney in the Roman courts, showed that bloody palm prints were meant to frame a blind man of his mother's mother.
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The first textbook on forensic medicine, Washing Away the Wrong, is written by Song Tzu and published in China Song.
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Medieval English Common Law calls for forensic determinations in dealing with estates.
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German and Slavic societies were the first to write statutes that required medical experts to determine cause of death.
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William Nichol invented the polarizing light microscope.
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Leuchs first noted amylase activity in human saliva.
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Henry was one of the first men to catch a murderer.
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Jean Servais Stas is a chemist who discovered vegetable poisons in body tissue.
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Dutch scientist J. Van Deen developed a test for blood using guaiac , a West Indian scrub.
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Odelbrecht first advocated the use of photography for the identification of criminals.
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Alphon Bertillon develops anthropone try, a system of taking pictures and body measurements to identify criminals.
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Coroner's Act in the USA ensures that the coroner's role includes investigating cause of sudden or violent deaths.
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Sir Francis Galton classifies fingerprints into eight categories.
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Edmond Locard develops exchange principle and in France starts the first ever police crime lab.
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Franz Holzer develops ABO blood typing method in Australia.
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Walter Specht develops luminol, a chemical that shines blue when it comes in contact with blood.
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Scientists in the USA develop methods to impact gunshot residue with a scanning electron microscope.
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Sir Alec Jeffreys develops methods for DNA Fingerprinting and profiling in England that are used around the world today.