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Upon a View of the Body
Puparia, Woodcut engraving, 1894
Mégnin, a French zoologist and veterinary surgeon, studied the stages of insect and reproduction and succession in cadavers, and helped to create the modern discipline of forensic entomology.
Pierre Mégnin, La faune des cadavers; application de l'entomologie à la médecine légale [The fauna of the cadaver; the application of entomology to legal medicine], Paris
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