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First use of medical knowledge to solve a crime

First use of medical knowledge to solve a crime
Who
Sung T'zu
Where
China
When
1248
In 1248, Chinese author Sung T'zu wrote a 55-volume book entitled His Duan Yu (The Washing Away of Wrongs). This treatise on the medical causes of death also included descriptions of how to distinguish drowning from strangulation. This is the first recorded application of medicine to help solve a crime. Sung T'zu’s methodology included investigating the damage to throat cartilage to solve murder cases involving strangulation.