Scientists: Skull Proves Early Autopsy

November 1, 2006

(AP) -- The earliest confirmed autopsy in North America was conducted more than 400 years ago by French colonists desperate to determine what was killing them as they endured a rugged winter on St. Croix Island, scientists concluded.

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