The Beginning
Defined as "Inspection of animal entrails"
Practice of haruspicy
Who was the first doctor to advocate for human dissections
Sushruta (Indian doctor)
Associated disease with changes in the organs
Erasistratus
What was first described in the Chinese handbook: Xi yaun ji lu (Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified)
Postmortem examination/forensic issues
Known as the founder of modern pathology due to applying microscopic examination to diseased tissues and recognizing cellular alterations. Examined organs in situ and noted their relationships, removed them one at a time and dissected them further outside of the body
Rudolph Virchow
Liver
Where practice of medicine was generally based on philosophy and religion rather than science during the Warring States Period
China and Japan
Overfilling of the organ caused by failure of the organ to digest the nutrient substance during this time was referring to
Plethora
Whose teachings were quickly appreciated by the Salerno Medical School
Constantine the African
Developed the evisceration technique based on en bloc removal of the thoracic and abdominal organs
Maurice Letuelle
Most scholars believe that early anatomic observations came from
The observations of animal anatomy by early hunters, butchers, and cooks
What type of ancient medicine described external manifestations and only observed human anatomy only through wounds
Greek
Overfilling of veins with blood during this time was referring to
Inflammation
Who made the first law authorizing human dissection
Frederick II
Through his influences of his editions, autopsy became an important and integral part of medicine during the first half of the nineteenth century. He opened all organs in situ to preserve all abnormal relationships
Karl Rokitansky
Who followed Talmudic law when examining slaughtered animals for evidence of disease
Ancient Hebrews
Created the environment where pathologic anatomy first flourished and established the great university and library in Alexandria
Ptolemy of Macedonia (king of Egypt)
Roman patrician who compiled much of the medical knowledge in his 8 volume De re medicinia that included the first description of appendicitis
Celsus
Where Taddeo di Alderotto made dissection of the human body a regular part of university teaching
University of Bologna
What are the two major objectives of the autopsy
1. Establish a final diagnosis
2. Determine a cause of death
Who believed King-physician Athotis was first to write books on medicine which contained anatomic descriptions
Egyptians
First who “searched into the cause of disease”
Herophilos
Where physical diagnosis and pathologic anatomy become more firmly rooted and where physicians opened dead bodies searching for the cause of a plague epidemic
Byzantine world
Between 1347-1350, the Pope authorized opening of the bodies during the ___________ to determine the cause of the disease
Black death
Establishes the cause, time, and manner of death, including the circumstances preceding and surrounding death
Forensic autopsy