Citation

Günther HJ. Beitr. Gerichtl. Med. 1991; 49: 297-305.

Vernacular Title

Die Sektion des badischen Markgrafen Jakob III. Der fruheste rechtsmedizinische

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Verlag Franz Deuticke)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1811513

Abstract

In 1590 Markgrave Jakob III. of Baden died, 28 years old, after a sudden disease which had lasted nine days. A necropsy was performed by two professors of the Freiburg University faculty of medicine. A written report amazingly accurate for the time, exists. It points at poisoning by arsenic powder. This is the first existing written protocol of a forensic autopsy, performed by professors of the faculty of medicine of Freiburg in 1590, 26 years after Vesalius' death.

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