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Auguste Ambroise Tardieu
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Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (1818 – 1879) was a French physician and forensic medical scientist known for books such as Étude médico-légale sur les attentats aux moeurs (1857).
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Overview
Tardieu's specialties were forensic medicine and toxicology. His authoritative book on forensic toxicology (Étude médico-légale et clinique sur l'empoisonnement) has been called a model of clarity and clinical precision.
Over his 23-year career, Tardieu was asked to participate in 5,238 cases as a forensic expert, including many famous and notorious historical crimes. Using his cases as a statistical base, Tardieu wrote over a dozen volumes of forensic analysis, covering such diverse areas as abortion, drowning, hanging, insanity, poisoning, suffocation, syphilis, and tattoos (Labbé, 2005).
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