The American Academy of Forensic Sciences Toxicology section: the detection and interpretation of drugs, alcohol and poisons in biological samples for cause-of-death, impairment and post-mortem investigations. Belongs here: any discipline whose method is chemical analysis of a biological sample specifically for drugs, alcohol or poison. Does not belong here: general chemical or trace analysis with no toxicological purpose, grouped under Criminalistics, or biological material analyzed for identity or cause of death by other means, grouped under Pathology and Biology. This subcategory currently holds one live entity, Forensic Toxicology.
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1. Mathieu Orfila (Wikipedia)
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Orfila created new techniques, refined existing techniques and described them in his first treatise, Traite des poisons (1813)
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