Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

LIVE: Thursday 27th June 2024, 18:00-19:30 (CEST)
Join our expert panel to discover why you need to understand the drivers of non-adherence in your patients, and how you can optimize medication adherence in your clinics to drastically improve patient outcomes.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
International Journal of Legal Medicine
Published in: International Journal of Legal Medicine 6/2010

01-11-2010 | Letter to the Editor

A medieval contribution to the history of legal medicine: the first European Necroscopic Registry

Authors: Francesca Vaglienti, Cristina Cattaneo

Published in: International Journal of Legal Medicine | Issue 6/2010

Login to get access

Excerpt

Up to now, scanty information on mortality and cause of death of past populations has come mainly from church registries or coroners’ archives [1]. …
Footnotes
1
The term necroscopic is to be intended as referring to the examination of a dead body with the purpose of certifying death and establishing its causes, eventually through autopsy.
 
Literature
1.
Gibson J, Rogers S (1998) Coroners’ records in England and Wales. Genealogical Publishing Co, UK
2.
Visconti A (1911) Il magistrato di sanità nello stato di Lombardia. Arch Stor Lomb 38:263–284
3.
Albini G (1982) Guerra, fame, peste. Crisi di mortalità e sistema sanitario nella Lombardia tardomedievale. Cappelli, Bologna
4.
Da Vigevano G (1354) Anathomia designata per figuras. III Anatomical Table
5.
Georges KE, Calonghi F (2002) Dizionario Enciclopedico della Lingua Latina, vol 1. Sellier, Turin
Metadata
Title
A medieval contribution to the history of legal medicine: the first European Necroscopic Registry
Authors
Francesca Vaglienti
Cristina Cattaneo
Publication date
01-11-2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
International Journal of Legal Medicine / Issue 6/2010
Print ISSN: 0937-9827
Electronic ISSN: 1437-1596
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-009-0378-z

Other articles of this Issue 6/2010

International Journal of Legal Medicine 6/2010 Go to the issue

Review Article

Laser capture microdissection in forensic research: a review

CASE REPORT

Buprenorphine-related deaths: unusual forensic situations

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

X-linked insertion/deletion polymorphisms: forensic applications of a 33-markers panel

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Molecular identification of carrion-breeding scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) using COI barcodes

Original Article

Developing equine mtDNA profiling for forensic application

Original Article

Gunshot energy transfer profile in ballistic gelatine, determined with computed tomography using the total crack length method