... cases."1 Forensic science has really advanced over the years. The first recorded application of medical knowledge to the solution of a crime was in a Chinese book, His Duan Yu (the washing away of wrongs), written in 1248. It contains a description of how to distinguish drowning and strangulation. These days, we have ways of telling whether the person was drowned intentionally or not and if their strangulation was ... which a print cannot be developed. Computers have made the techniques used to match fingerprints very easy. Until recently, the old way was the Henry Classification System...

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