The use of medicine and entomology in criminal cases can
be traced as far back as 13th century China, when an investigator managed to match the
sickle that was used in a murder. The Argentine scientist and policeman
Juan Vucetich was the first man to use fingerprinting
techniques to solve a crime in the 1890s. The French army surgeon Abroise
Pare studied internal organs for their relationship in violent deaths in
the 16th century. The Italian surgeons Fortunato Fidelis
and Paolo Zacchia studied structural changes that occurred
in a diseased body, while the French doctor Fodere and the
German physician Johann Peter Franck wrote early forensic
casebooks in the late 18th century. Several chemists, including Sweden's
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Germany's Valentin
Ross and England's James Marsh, all detected
poisons as the causes of death in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The first school of
forensic science--the Institut de Police Scientifque--was founded by
Rodolphe Archibald Reiss at the University of Lausanne
(Switzerland).
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