PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture : Lecture 1

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3CC3
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Any science being applied to law is forensics. Botany: seeds and pollen to determine where and when. Pathology: what"s happened to the organs and tissues. Juries expect forensic evidence to be presented, and when it is not they are suspicious. 44bce: first forensic autopsy conducted on julius caesar by roman physician antistius. 1000: roman attorney quintilian argues that bloody palm prints are attempt to frame him. 1250: chinese text describes death by drowning from death by strangulation. 1575: french surgeon ambroise paree publishes reports in court , first text on legal medicine. 1813: mathieu orfila, father of modern toxicology" publishes first toxicology text: traite de posisons . 1829: sir robert christison publishes tratise on poisons. english standard for many years. 1855: ambroise tardieu notes petechial hemorrhages in asphyxia. Pethicial hemorrhages is not an accurate indication of asphyxia. 1863: christian schonbein discovers the first presumptive test for blood (hydrogen peroxide)