Why was the ancient forensic doctor called the coroner?

Because the ancient autopsy was very hard and the ancient feudal ideology was serious, it was usually the Dalits or slaves who performed the autopsy and reported the situation to the officials during the autopsy.

The word "burial" appeared in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and he was the person in charge of the funeral industry. Later it gradually developed into an organization. According to Wang Renyu's Gossip about Yutang in the Five Dynasties, members of this kind of folk guild were called "buried pedestrians".

Although he has been engaged in life-threatening work for a long time, China's ancient feudal thought is extremely heavy. Since the Yao and Shun era, untouchables or slaves have examined corpses and reported the situation to officials, which is equivalent to the embryonic form of ancient forensic medicine. In ancient times, suicide notes were held by lowly untouchables, which were probably the homes of corpse burial and coffin slaughter. Their descendants were forbidden to take the imperial examinations, so they became the object of ridicule and ridicule by many people.

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Song Ci, born in Song Dynasty, was an outstanding forensic scientist in ancient China, and was called "the father of forensic medicine". He used to be a prison officer in Guangdong, Hunan and other places, focusing on field visits. A.D. 1247, Injustice Collection, consisting of five volumes, is the first systematic forensic monograph in China and the earliest in the world. It is widely spread at home and abroad and has made great contributions to the development of medicine.

Song Ci shows a materialistic tendency in the theory and practice of forensic medicine. In the specific examination of the corpse, that is, the diagnosis of the cause of death of the deceased is very technical, and it is also difficult to diagnose the living. We should not only have a good ideological and moral character, but also have a deep medical and pharmaceutical foundation and master many scientific knowledge and methods.

Song ci, born in Confucianism, has no relevant scientific knowledge such as medicine. In order to make up for this deficiency, on the one hand, he assiduously studied medical works and applied relevant physiological, pathological, pharmacological and toxicological knowledge and diagnostic methods to investigate the reality of casualties; On the other hand, we should conscientiously sum up the experience of predecessors to prevent "prison loss" and "scheduled inspection errors"

In many years of inspection practice, we spare no effort to make the inspection methods diversified and scientific. Judging from the book Remedy Collection, which has been handed down to this day, the variety, comprehensiveness and accuracy of the inspection methods contained in it are unprecedented. This is also the most exciting and high-tech content in the book.

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