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Upon a View of the Body
Fly, Woodcut engraving, 1894
Mégnin's study of the larval and adult forms of insect families found in cadavers, along with its detailed drawings of the distinctive anatomical parts of insects, inspired other researchers to study the arthropod fauna of graves, and the fauna and flora of mummified, or otherwise decayed, cadavers.
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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