THE CLAIM: You have to keep stitches dry and covered up after surgery. THE FACTS: The instructions for caring for fresh stitches are fairly universal: Keep the sutures clean and dry and avoid getting them wet for at least 48 hours. Doing so, the thinking goes, sharply reduces the rate of infection and improves healing.
Forensic toxicology is the use of toxicology and other disciplines such as analytical chemistry, pharmacology and clinical chemistry to aid medical or legal investigation of death, poisoning, and drug use.
Pathology is a medical specialty concerned with the study of disease. The main way pathologists study disease is by conducting an autopsy i.e. a comprehensive surgical examination of the deceased.By definition, therefore, forensic pathology primarily relates to the study of disease within a legal context.he roles and responsibilities of the forensic pathologist include: 1  Determining cause of death. 2  Forensic examination of the body (external/internal/clothing). 3  Identifying absense/presence of disease from tissue samples.