Word: pathologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college, as might be expected, sees its actions in a different light. It holds that its main purpose is to enforce standards through its code of ethics. And that code says that no pathologist shall practice in any lab where the boss is not a pathologist; others might not live up to the college's code. The Government, said Oliver Neibel, executive director of and general counsel to the college, has taken the first step in its campaign of "harassment of the entire medical profession." The suit was filed, he said, to put pressure on doctors already overburdened...
Each successive stage of decomposition, Payne found, was characterized by the arrival and departure of particular groups of insects. With this information, he says, even if a body's decomposition were so advanced that a pathologist could not determine the time of death, the character of its insect population would be a dead giveaway to an experienced entomologist...
That afternoon, Trimmer and a staff pathologist did an autopsy and noted an odor of ether in the child's lungs. She was not known to have had ether, but the doctors did not mention the odor in their report. They listed "gross pulmonary edema" (waterlogging of the lungs) as the cause of death...
...languished since the Renaissance, came on with a rush in the 19th century when Germany's Rudolf Virchow and his followers began to study human tissue under the microscope. For most of the century, the profession was widely regarded as legalized ghouling, but in 1889 a French pathologist named Alexandre Lacassagne cracked the celebrated case of the Millery Corpse-a grisly mess of rotting flesh and jumbled bones that, after an autopsy lasting eleven days, was identified largely by study of the hair and bones as the mortal remains of a smalltime Paris playboy. The public was profoundly impressed...
...about the same time, a pathologist named Langreuter scooped the brains out of corpses and, throwing a strong light down the throat from above, made definitive studies of strangulation. In 1900, Germany's Paul Uhlenhuth solved a problem that had vexed the authorities since the days of Joseph's coat: he discovered a chemical means of discrim- inating human from animal blood. The mysteries of blood coagulation were then elucidated-the blood of a person who dies suddenly, it was discovered, coagulates rapidly, but then, for no known reason reliquefies. The pathology of rape was explored-semen, somebody...