HISTORY Flashcards
— the EARLIEST RECORDED MEDICO-LEGAL EXPERT.
— He was the chief physician and architect of King Zoser of the 3rd dynasty in Egypt and the builder of the first pyramid.
*That time was the first recorded report of a murder trial written on clay tablet.
IMHOTEP
— oldest code of law which included legislation on adultery, rape, divorce, incest, abortion, and violence.
CODE OF HAMMURABI
— in Greece discussed the lethality of wounds.
HIPPOCRATES
— fixed animation of fetus at the 40th day after conception.
ARISTOTLE
— the first “police surgeon” or forensic pathologist. Performed an autopsy on the murdered body of Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) exposed on the forum.
*He found out that Julius Caesar suffered from 23 WOUNDS and only 1 PENETRATED THE CHEST CAVITY through a space between the first and second ribs.
ANTISTIUS
— in his digest made mention that a physician is not an ordinary witness and that a physician gives judgment rather than testimony.
JUSTINIAN
— issued an edict providing appointment of doctors to the courts for the determination of the nature of wounds.
POPE INNOCENT III
— expressed the need of expert in ecclesiastical courts, in the diagnosis of leprosy and many medico-legal documents.
POPE JOHN XXII
— a papal physician, regarded as the “FATHER OF FORENSIC MEDICINE”.
— He published Questiones Medico-legales
PAULUS ZACCHIAS
Paulus Zacchias published ___________ which dealt with the legal aspects of wounds and the first two chapters dealt with secret homicide.
QUESTIONES MEDICO-LEGALES
— works on virginity and defloration and confirms the existence of hymen and may not rupture during sexual intercourse.
SEVERIN PINEAU
— FOUNDER OF MODERN TOXICOLOGY. Introduced chemical methods in toxicology. In his Traite’ des poison, he mentioned mineral, vegetable and animal poison in relation with the physiology, pathology and legal medicine.
ORFILA
- In 1858, the first medical textbook printed including pertinent instructions related to the medico-legal practice by Spanish physician, Dr. Rafael Genard y Mas, Chief Army Physician, Entitled_____
“MANUAL DE MEDICINA DOMESTICA”
BY DR. RAFAEL GENARD Y MAS
- In 1871, teaching legal medicine, included as academic subject in the foundation of the school of medicine of the___________
“REAL Y PONTIFICA UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTO TOMAS”
— by virtue of the ROYAL DECREE NO. 188, of the King of Spain, the position of “MEDICO TITULARES” was created and made in-charge of public sanitation and the same time medico-legal aid in the administration of justice.
MARCH 31, 1876