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.
forensic entomology. The use of evidence provided by insect infestations to determine the condition of cadavers, esp. the time of death of a body left outdoors.orensic entomology. The study of life cycles of insects that feed on the flesh of the dead, to establish time of death and occasionally identify chemicals present in a personâs body at the time of death.