A brief survey of the history of forensic entomology - Wiki2.benecke ...

20 MARK BENECKE
Fig. 5: Illustration from
the forensic entomologist
A. OLIVA (Museum
of Natural History, Buenos
Aires, Argentina)
relating to BAUDELAIRE’s
poem “Une chargone”
that precisely describes
states of decomposition
including maggot activity
(Frontispiz in Baudelaire
1955).
Abb. 5: Von der Entomologin
A. OLIVA (Naturkundemuseum
Buenos
Aires) angefertigte
Illustration zu BAUDE-
LAIREs Gedicht „Ein
Aas“ („Une chargone“),
das präzise die Zersetzung
einer Leiche einschließlich
der Aktivität
von Maden beschreibt.
Abb. 6: Beschreibung
einer Schmeißfliege und
ihrer Zerstörungskraft
(aus LINNÉ 1775).
Fig. 6: Description of a
fly and tissue loss due to
maggots (from LINNÉ
1775).
tem interval (PMI) was given by the French
doctor BERGERET (1855). The case dealt with
blow fly pupae and larval moths. Though
BERGERET was by profession a hospital physician
(at the Hopital Civil d’Arbois), his interest
in cadaver study is clear, as he states that
a corpse dealt with by him resembled those
he had observed found in other locations
(i.e., “in the hot and dry lands (“pays chauds”)
on the cemetery of the Capucins of Palerme”,
or “in Toulouse”). His original report
to the court was dated March 28, 1850. In his