History of Forensics

Village elder slaughtered 3 pigs and burned the corpses with 3 living ones in a home to determine the cause of death for a man's body found inside a burned down house.

Cal W. Scheele devised a test for detecting Arsenic in Corpses, a carcinogenic which was commonly known as inheritance powder.

Previous methods required a lot of Arsenic whereas now smaller amounts could be detected.

Known as the Father of Forensic Toxicology and the

Polarised light has waves that vibrate in only one direction, and cannot be seen normally. Polarising microscopes use this to improve image quality when examining birefringent, anisotropic materials.

Some dude has weird ideas of fun.

system of identification bu physical appearance;was considered the most accurate method of personal identification for 2 decades. Replaced by fingerprinting in 1903