{"id":1893,"date":"2024-11-12T23:07:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T17:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2024-11-12T23:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T17:37:23","slug":"fm-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/2024\/11\/12\/fm-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FM 1-2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

History of Forensic Medicine <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4000 to 3000 B.C. <\/strong>\u2013law \u2013medicine problems written records in Egypt , Sumer , Babylon , India and China<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

3000 B.C. <\/strong>– Chinese materia medica <\/em>gives information about poisons<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

3000-1000 B.C. <\/strong>-Rigveda and other Vedas, mentions about crimes like incest , adultery , abduction , killing an embryo , murder , drunkenness and their punishments , physicians recognised as professionals , Atharva Veda gives details about remedies<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

27th<\/sup> Century B.C. <\/strong>-Imhotep Grand Vizir , Chief Justice and Chief physician of King Zoser of Ezypt, enacted rules for medical practice<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2200 B.C. <\/strong>-Code of Hammurabi (The Babylon king) , oldest know medicolegal code<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

7th<\/sup>\u00a0 century B.C. – Charaka Samhita <\/em>,code regarding training ,\u00a0 duties , privileges and social status of physician , description of poisons and treatment.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

4th<\/sup> century B.C. <\/strong>\u2013 Manusmriti<\/em> by Manu ,various laws including punishment for various sexual offences , recognized mental incapacity due to intoxication , illness and age<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

4th<\/sup> to 3rd<\/sup> century B.C.<\/strong> \u2013 Arthashastra<\/em> of Kautilya , defined penal laws , regulated medical practice ,physicians were punished for negligence, medical knowledge utilized for purpose of law , mentions about examination of dead bodies in unnatural deaths . Abortion , sexual offences and kidnapping etc. were punishable offences.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

460-377 B.C. \u2013 Hippocrates-lethality of wounds, medical ethics<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

300 B.C.- Rabbis of Rabbinical court , implementing Jewish laws , aid of medical expert in administration of justice<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

200-300 A.D. \u2013 Sushruta Samhita , medicolegal problems , duties of physicians , wounds & fractures classified , Poisons and snakes classification and treatment , modes of administration of poisons<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

6 Century A.D.- Justinian code (Roman emperor)-regulated practice of medicine & surgery , function of medical expert in legal procedures<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1302 A.D.-Bartolomeo De Varignana \u2013First Medicolegal Autopsy<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

13th<\/sup> Century A.D. \u2013 Manual for death investigation in China<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1507 A.D. \u2013 George , Bishop of Bamberg , penal code for necessity of medical evidence in certain cases<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1553 A.D. \u2013 Emperor Charles V Germany , Expert medical testimony required for murder , hanging , poisoning , wounding , drowning , infanticide and abortion etc. , several types of homicide which were not punishable e.g. one in which offender was \u2018deprived of understanding\u2019<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1602 A.D. \u2013 First book on forensic medicine by Italian physician Fortunato Fedele<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1621-1635- Greatest work was \u2018Questiones Medicolegalis\u2019(7 volumes and two additional volumes in 1666) by Paul Zachhias (father of legal medicine & Forensic psychiatry) principal physician of Pope Innocent X and Alexander VII , and an expert before Rota Romanna the Court of Appeal<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Questiones Medicolegalis;
Emphasis on exclusive competence of physicians on pathological mental states , amentia
Classification of mental disorders keeping legal issues at that time<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Around 16th<\/sup> century-autopsy in medicolegal cases began to generally practised<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

18th<\/sup> Century \u2013 In Germany Professorships in legal medicine were founded in state<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1787 \u2013 1853 A.D. Orfila (professor of chemistry and legal medicine) at Paris introduced precise chemical\u00a0 methods toxicology (father of modern toxicology)<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1843 A.D. \u2013 Law regarding Criminal Responsibility of insane in England in Mc. Naughten\u2019s case<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1985 A.D.- DNA Fingerprinting<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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