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When was an early forensic autopsy requested in Bologna?
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English physicians Charles Scarborough and Edward Arris performing an autopsy in 1651 (watercolour painted in 1818 by G.P. Harding from an original work in the Barber Surgeons' Hall, London).
The first forensic or legal autopsy, requested by a magistrate to investigate a death and determine the presence of "fault," is said to have occurred in Bologna in 1302.1