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Period: 131 to 200
Galen, a disciple of Hippocrates in ancient Greece, first performed autopsies for medical purposes
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Jan 1, 1000
Quintilian, an attorney in the Roman courts, showed that bloody palm prints were meant to frame a blind man of his mother’s murder.
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Jan 1, 1248
A Chinese book, Hsi Duan Yu (the washing away of wrongs), contains a description of how to distinguish drowning from strangulation. This was the first recorded application of medical knowledge to the solution of crime.
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Marcello Malpighi , a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna, noted fingerprint characteristics. However, he made no mention of their value as a tool for individual identification.
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Adolphe Quetelet , a Belgian statistician, provided the foundation for Bertillon’s work by stating his belief that no two human bodies were exactly alike.
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Jean Servais Stas , a chemistry professorprofessor from Brussels, Belgium, was the first successfully to identify vegetable poisons in body tissue.
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Odelbrecht first advocated the use of photography for the identification of criminals and the documentation of evidence and crime scenes.
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The New York State Prison system began the first systematic use of fingerprints in United States for criminal identification.
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Zoro and Hadley in the United Kingdom first evaluated GC-MS for forensic purposes
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DNA profiling was introduced for the first time in a U.S. criminal court