marc and jaz - Timeline

The Chinese use fingerprints as a method as identification on documents and clay

Use fingerprints for the first time , the Arabic merchants would take the debtor's fingerprints and attach it to the bill.

Herophilus was a Greek scientist, that did the first dissection in Alexandria

Erasistratus was a Greek physician to test a patients pulse

Antistius examined the dead body of Julius Caesar to determined the death of 23 stab wounds. The only fatal one was to the chest.

The first recorded use of questioned document analysis

Invention of the breathalyzer for field sobriety test

First forensic autopsies are done at University of Bologna

Chinese use fingerprints to "sign" legal documents

Ambroise Para (1510-1590) writes extensively on the anatomy of war and homicidal wounds

Medical schools are established in Padua and Bologna

Pope Clement VI(1291-1352) orders autopsies on victims of the Black Death to hopefully find a cause for the plague

Francois Damelle publishes the first treatise on document exmination in France

Carl Wihelm Scheele (1742-1786) develops the first test for arsenic.

Physician to the Roam gladiators, dissect both animals and humans for causes of disease