The roots of forensic lead to the Roman era when criminal charges implied public presentation of the case in the Forum. Convicted person for a criminal offense and the applicant, argued publicly about the case, and the person with better arguments and presentation, prevails. Hence the origin of the name forensics, from the Latin word forēnsis which means “in the Forum”.
Today, forensic means using full range of science to provide answers to questions of legal interest, relating to criminal or civil proceedings.
Archimedes (287-212 BC) is marked as the founder of forensics; his legendary “eureka” can be considered the first use of forensic anthropology. He decreed that the crown is made entirely of gold (as worded false claim). He came to this …show more content…
Ambroise Paré, French surgeon, systematically studied the effects of violent death on internal organs. Fortunato Fidelis and Paolo Zacchia, the two Italian surgeons laid the foundations of modern pathology by examining the changes occurring in the structure of the body due to illness. In later 1700 appeared articles on these topics. Like "Treatise on Forensic Medicine and Health" from Francois Emanuel Fodere, French doctor. A way to detect arsenic oxide or arsenic in the bodies, though only if it is in large quantities, was found by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist, in 1776. His investigation developed in 1806, when German chemist Valentin Ross succeed to detect poison in the walls of the stomach of the victim and the English chemist James Marsh, who used chemical process to determine that arsenic was the cause of death in a murder trial in 1836. (McCrery, …show more content…
In 1978, Alphonse Bertillion, devised the first-still used crime scene kit. He devised first system of identification of a person, using a series of body measurements. System which needed eleven measurements, including height, reach, width of head and foot length. This system was abandoned in 1903 when at Leavenworth Federal Prison the measurements of a prisoner matched other prisoner, and the only difference between them was their fingerprints. Francis Galton led the foundation of modern fingerprints, when he published the book “Finger Prints” in 1892. The book contained the first statistical proof that supports the uniqueness of fingerprints. (Saferstein,
Today, forensic means using full range of science to provide answers to questions of legal interest, relating to criminal or civil proceedings.
Archimedes (287-212 BC) is marked as the founder of forensics; his legendary “eureka” can be considered the first use of forensic anthropology. He decreed that the crown is made entirely of gold (as worded false claim). He came to this …show more content…
Ambroise Paré, French surgeon, systematically studied the effects of violent death on internal organs. Fortunato Fidelis and Paolo Zacchia, the two Italian surgeons laid the foundations of modern pathology by examining the changes occurring in the structure of the body due to illness. In later 1700 appeared articles on these topics. Like "Treatise on Forensic Medicine and Health" from Francois Emanuel Fodere, French doctor. A way to detect arsenic oxide or arsenic in the bodies, though only if it is in large quantities, was found by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist, in 1776. His investigation developed in 1806, when German chemist Valentin Ross succeed to detect poison in the walls of the stomach of the victim and the English chemist James Marsh, who used chemical process to determine that arsenic was the cause of death in a murder trial in 1836. (McCrery, …show more content…
In 1978, Alphonse Bertillion, devised the first-still used crime scene kit. He devised first system of identification of a person, using a series of body measurements. System which needed eleven measurements, including height, reach, width of head and foot length. This system was abandoned in 1903 when at Leavenworth Federal Prison the measurements of a prisoner matched other prisoner, and the only difference between them was their fingerprints. Francis Galton led the foundation of modern fingerprints, when he published the book “Finger Prints” in 1892. The book contained the first statistical proof that supports the uniqueness of fingerprints. (Saferstein,