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Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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Fun Facts!
...a few more!
In 1800 English Naturist Thomas Bewick used engravings of his own fingerprint to identify the books he had published
Over a 20 year period, beginning in 1830, Helene Jegado poisoned 60 people and was convicted because of Wilhelm's developments
1858- Sir William Hershel began using fingerprints on native contracts
1877- Thomas Taylor actually suggested the idea of fingerprints being useful in criminal cases
1880- Henry Faulds used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent suspect
Amanda, Alecia, Catilin, Madison
http://www.bewicksociety.org/bibliography/publications.html
http://www.histoire-image.org/site/oeuvre/analyse.php?i=1185
John Toms of Lancaster, England (1786)
John Toms is convicted of murder
- torn wad of paper found in a pistol matched remaining piece in his pocket
- first documented use of physical matching
A Groundbreaking Book!
" A treatise of Forensic medicine and Public Health"
- written by a French physician Francois-Emanual Fodere
Valentin Ross and James Marsh
Decided to expand of Wilhelm's work: (1806)
Developed more precise method of detection of poisoning in stomach lining of victims (Ross)
Used chemical processes to confirm arsenic poisoning as the cause of death in a 1836 murder trial (Marsh)
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele, 1775
Led the way for Forensic Sciences.
- solved a number of cases
- discovered forensic detection of arsenic poisoning in corpses by changing arsenious oxide into arsenious acid