CRCJ 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Abo Blood Group System, Pulmonary Artery, Microscope Slide

• School: Trent University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
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Forensic science is the applicaion of science to the criminal and civil laws that are enforced by police agencies in a criminal jusice. Earliest record of applying forensics to solve criminal cases came from third century china. Coroner solved a case in which a woman was suspected of killing her husband and burning his body. She said he died in an accidental ire, but there were no ashes in his mouth. First inger print record was in 1686 by marcello malpighi. In 1775, carl wilhelm scheele devised the irst successful test for detecing the poison arsenic in corpses. In 1806, valenin ross discovered a more precise method of detecing small amounts of arsenic in the walls of a vicim"s stomach. Mathieu orila is considered the father of forensic toxicology. In 1814, orila published the irst scieniic treaise on the detecion of poisons and their efects on animals. In 1828, william nichol invented the polarizing microscope.