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Erasistratus and Herophilus perform the first autopsies in Alexandria

Galen dissects both animal and humans to search for causes of disease

Quintilian, a Roman attorney, shows that a bloody handprint was intended to frame a blind man for his mother's murder

King Richard Plantagenet officially creates the position of coroner

First forensic autopsies are done at the University of Bologna

De Officia Coronatoris is published in England

Medical schools are established in Pauda and Bologna

Ambroise Pare writes extensively on the anatomy of war and homicidal wounds

University of Leipzig offers the first courses in forensic medicine

Marcello Malpighi first recognizes fingerprint patterns and uses the terms "loops" and "whorls"

Carl Wilhelm Scheele develops the first test for arsenic

Johann Metzger develops a method for isolating arsenic

Franz Joseph Gall develops the field of phrenology

Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila pusblishes Traite des poisons, the first toxicology book

Karl Land Steiner delineates the ABO blood typing system

Theodore Roosevelt establishes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Technology speeds up DNA profiling time from 6-8 weeks to 1-2 days

Japanese researchers develop a dental x-ray matching system which can make a positive match in 4 seconds