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History of Legal Medicine, personalities with remarkable contributions to the development of Legal Medicine:

  • 1507: the penal code called for proof of cause in all violent deaths. Thus, it allowed the opening of bodies and represented a step forward in the practice of medicolegal autopsies and the development of legal medicine as a separate professional discipline. 
  • Hieronymus Brunschwig (surgeon in Strassburg, 1450-1533) published the first known detailed description of a gunshot. 
  • Albrecht Dürer (painter) published in 1528 a book about human proportions - the first example of anthropometry in art.
  • 1746 - Christian Eschenbach of Rostock wrote "Medicina legalis, brevissimis comprehensa thesibus in usum auditorii conscripta".
  • Rudolf Karl Virchow (1821-1902) is referred to as the "Father of Pathology". He developed one of the today's standard methods of autopsy, namely where each organ is taken out and examined one by one. Virchow is also famous for elucidating the mechanism of pulmonary thromboembolism, coining the term embolism. He noted that blood clots in the pulmonary artery originate first from venous thrombi, stating: "The detachment of larger or smaller fragments from the end of the softening thrombus which are carried along by the current of blood and driven into remote vessels.  Virchow's triad: alterations in blood flow, injuries to the endothelium, hypercoagulability. Virchow also developed the technique of longitudinal brain section.

Affiliation of Legal Medicine: mainly in the frame of Universities, almost all forensic pathologists are employed by an University. 

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