Until the Renaissance, understanding of human anatomy was based on the dissection of animals, with human autopsies considered an affront in virtually all cultures
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Italy's University of Bologna became the first institution to use forensic autopsies
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The Catholic Church ordered an autopsy on conjoined infant twins Joana and Melchiora Ballestero in Hispaniola in 1533 to determine if they shared a soul
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In about two-thirds of incorrectly diagnosed cases, the patient's life could have been saved
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In about two-thirds of incorrectly diagnosed cases, the patient's life could have been saved
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Nineteenth-century Austrian pathologist Karl Rokitansky reportedly performed 30,000 autopsies and is said to have supervised another 70,000
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Hospitals today don't like performing autopsies. They cost a lot of money, tie up pathologists, and often indicate that doctors blew diagnoses, sometimes fatally
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There is little squirting blood during an autopsy, because cadavers have no blood pressure
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At the end of an autopsy the organs are either incinerated or put in a bag and placed back in the body before it is sewn shut
