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47 Cards in this Set
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When families did not use vaults what was an option to put caskets in?
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rough boxes
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Who discovered the circulatory system?
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Harvey
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Who wrote the “History of Embalming”
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Gannal
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Who was accredited with being the “Father of American Embalming”?
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Thomas
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Who patented and developed the airtight coffin?
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Almond Fisk
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Who drew anatomical plates?
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Who was accredited with the first technique for arterial embalming but kept it a secret to his grave?
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Fredrick Ruysch
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Who was the English man who said cities should run cemeteries and medical officers should certify the cause of death?
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Edwin Chadwick
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Who was the American who translated Gannal’s “History of Embalming”?
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Harlan
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What was the type of vault that employs the diving bell seal to seal it?
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The New Baker Patent Burglar-Proof Grave Vault-patented in 1879 by Mr. Baker of Champion Co. but developed by Mr. Boyd pg. 190
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What was another variant of burglar-proof vaults know as?
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“end sealer” pg 190
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When did the concrete vault come into prominence?
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shortly after 1900
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What were the types of caskets called if someone were buried alive?
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Life Signals
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What was the event that brought American embalming on a large scale?
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Civil War
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Who did Mr. Stein merge his casket company to?
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National Casket Co.
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How many caskets was National Casket Co. making a week?
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600
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Who was buried in a Fisk casket with a testimonial in the New York Tribune?
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Hon. John C. Calhoun
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Where did Mr. Stein first show his caskets?
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the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876
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What was a casket called that was patented but never really used?
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“also rans”
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Who was the first American to offer caskets?
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William Cooley 1849 pg 169
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What does the term “casket” mean?
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jewel box or container for something valuable
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What was President Grant buried in?
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Stein casket
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What was the name of the casket that looked like a cross?
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Cruciform casket
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Was the Cruciform a big success?
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no
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Was the life signal casket a big success?
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no
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By 1915, had burial vaults become very popular?
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no only 5% were used
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As part of embalming in the Middle Ages were parts of bodies ever separated from the bodies and buried in churches?
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yes
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Who invented the first disaster pouch and patented it in 1863?
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Thomas Holmes
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When Gannal’s book was translated into English-which city was it translated in
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Philadelphia
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Who was the first ranking death of the Civil War? (Mary Lincoln stated that his face was so natural it appeared that he was sleeping a brief and pleasant sleep. He was embalmed by Holmes)
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Col Elmer E. Ellsworth
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What important person’s body was entrusted to the firm of Brown and Alexander of Washington D.C.?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who was recorded as the first black embalmer that worked for W.R. Cornelius?
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Prince Greer
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When embalmers were getting out of hand the War Department issued a law in 1865 and what was the licensing system called?
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Order Concerning Embalmers
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Who received the first patent for embalming fluid (no. 15972)?
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J. Anthony Gaussardia
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When did embalming first become used in the United States?
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after the civil was-no trocar until 1878
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Who invented the first trocar?
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Samuel Rogers
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Why did a lot of Christians object to embalming?
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body mutilation and the body was a temple of God
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What was Dr. Thomas Holmes objection to embalming fluids that he saw in the market place?
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it was toxic and contained arsenic
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Who is accredited with opening the first school of mortuary science?
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Cincinnati, Ohio – Cincinnati School of Embalming
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Who was the first Virginian to practice embalming?
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Benjamin Wheatley
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Who received the first patent for the “Refrigerator for Corpses”?
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Robert Frederick and C.A. Trump
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What were some of the crude methods of embalming used by the early colonists?
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disembelling, filling the cavity with charcoal, immersing the body in alcohol, or wrapping the body in a cloth soaked in alum or “sere sheet”.
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Who was shipped back to England in a barrel of rum?
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Lord Nelson
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Who speculated on the possibility of embalming in wine?
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Benjamin Franklin
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Who patented “an air-tight coffin of cast or raised metal” in 1848?
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Fisk
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What were the five major themes in defining and fulfilling the proper function of the burial receptacle?
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utility, status indication, preservation, protection and aesthetic representation pg 163
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Who prepared fluid called “inominata” and patented it in 1877 and 1891?
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Holmes
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