This is a branch of medicine which delas with the application of medical knowledge to the purpose of law in the administration of justice

A physician who specializes or is involved primarily with medico-legal duties.

To be involved in medico lega duties, a physician must possess sufficient knowledge of ?

the purpose is to arrive at a definite diagnosis so that appropriate treatment can be instituted

the purpose is to include bodily lesions in his reports and testify before the court or before an investigative body, thus giving justice to whom it is due

Earliest recorded legal expert and earliest recorded architect of pyramid

The oldest code of law included legislation on adulteryz rape, divorce, abortion and violence

Father of Medicine

Discussed the lethality of wounds

Fixed animation of fetus at the 40th day ofter conception

Gave information on poison including aconite, arsenic, and opium, (morphine)

That bodies of all women dying during confinement should immediately be open in order to save the childs life was promulgated

First ever person believe to Julius Caesar

The first police surgeon of forensic pathologist

He examine the body of Julius Caesar

First textbook in legal medicine which was promulgated in 1532 during reign of emperor Charles V in Germany

He mentioned that a physician is not an ordinary witness and that a physcian gives judgement rather than testimony.

Issued an edict providing for the appointment of doctors to the courts for the determination of the nature of wounds

In 1234, caused the preparation of Nova Compilatio Cecretalium, concerned medical evidence, marriage, nullity, impotence, delivery, caesarian section, legitimacy, sexual offenses, crime against person and witchcraft

In China, this book was published, it is a five volume book dealing with inquest, criminal, abortion, infanticide, signs of death, assault, suicide, hanging, strangling, drowning, burning, poisoning and antidotes and examination of the dead

Expressed the need of experts in the ecclesiastical courts in the diagnosis of lecrosy and medico legal-documents

Considered legal medicine as a seperate discipline and he discussed in his book abortion, infanticide, death by lightning, hanging, drowning, feign diseases, distinction between ante-mortem and post-mortem wound and poisoning by carbon monoxide and corrosives

Regarded as the Father of Forensic Medicine

He published Questiones Medico-Legales which dealt with the aspects of wounds and the first two chapters dealt with the detection of secret homicide

dealt with the aspects of wounds and the first two chapters dealt with the detection of secret homicide

Published in paris a work on virginity and defloration

He confirmed the existence of the hymen and that it may not rupture during sexual intercourse

Introduced chemical methods in toxicology

Considered as the founder of Modern Toxicology

Discovered that blood can be categorized into four (4) groups

First to study Fingerprint

In what year when the first medical textbook printed including pertinent instructions related to medico-legal by Spanish Physician, Dr. Rafael Genard y Mas Chief Army Physician, entitled Manual de Medicina Domestica

Entitled Manual de Medicina Domestica

What date by virtue of the royal decree no 188, of the King of Spain, the position of "Medico Titulares" was created and made in charge of public sanitation and at the same time medico-lwgal aid in the administration of justice

was created and made in charge of public sanitation and at the same time medico-lwgal aid in the administration of justice

In remote places where the services of the registered physician were not available, a ______ may perform medico-legal work