BRIEF HISTORY Flashcards
1st Medical Textbook Printed entitled “Manual de Medicina Domestica”
authored by Dr. Rafael Genard y Mas
1858
Teaching of Legal Medicine started
1871
- Creation of the position “Medico Titulares” virtue of Royal Decree No.
188 of the King of Spain
March 31, 1876
- Creation of committee to study mineral waters of Luzon by Gen.
Joaquin Jovellar and Mr. Anacleto del Rosario as the chemist
December 15, 1884
Rules regulating the services of “Medico Titulares y Forences”
1894
- Preservation of the Spanish Forensic Medicine System by the
American Civil Government
1898
Establishment of the first Crime Laboratory by the US Army
1899
-Laboratorio Municipal de Manila was created
September 13, 1887
-Creation of Laboratorio Medico Legal under the Judicial Branch of the
Government
1894
Antonio Luna established a Clinical Laboratory that functions for
Chemical Analysis
1895
-First Scientific Laboratory on the Banks of Pasig River was established
headed by Lt. R.P. Strong
1899
-Bureau of Government Laboratories was created
July 1, 1901
-Creation of Provincial Insular and Municipal Board of Health
More in 1901
-Incorporation of the teaching of Legal Medicine and Ethics in the
Philippine Medical School (UP)
1908
-Department of Legal Medicine was created
March 11, 1915
The head of the Department of Legal Medicine and Ethics became the
Chief of the Medico- Legal Department of the Philippine General
Hospital without pay
January 10, 1922
Department of Legal Medicine of the UP as the branch of the
Department of Justice.
-Act No. 2465 of the Philippine
Legislature
March 10, 1922
-Legal Medicine as branch of the DOJ and at the same time an integral
part of UP
October 14, 1924
-Creation of the Division of Investigation under Department of Justice
December 19, 1937
Department of Legal Medicine was Abolished
March 31, 1938
-Philippine constabulary having its own medico-legal office with chemical
laboratory
October 1939
-Creation of the Criminal Investigation Laboratory with the office of the
Medical Examiner by the Provost Marshal of the US Army
1945
Ballistics, Photography and Fingerprint Record Unit was changed to
Criminal Laboratory Branch of the Constabulary
1947
Medico-legal Section was created under Col. Jesus T. Mendoza
1951