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Thanatology Exam Questions 100% Correct Answers What was the major killer during the Middle Ages? - plague About how many people were killed a day from plague during the Middle Ages? - thousands of people a day What is every major city located near? - a river because water is essential for an ...

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Thanatology Exam Questions 100%
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What was the major killer during the Middle Ages? - ✔✔plague


About how many people were killed a day from plague during the Middle Ages? - ✔✔thousands of

people a day


What is every major city located near? - ✔✔a river because water is essential for an adequately

functioning civilization


What was the result of major cities being placed near rivers? - ✔✔rats


What did rats cause/carry? - ✔✔plague and disease


What were two proponents that contributed to plague during the Middle Ages? - ✔✔- food infestation


- lack of hygiene


How were bodies disposed of during the Middle Ages? - ✔✔they were laid out on the curb (like infected

garbage) to be picked up and removed for mass burial


Who discovered the venous system? - ✔✔Leonardo da Vinci


Who painted the Vitruvian Man? - ✔✔Leonardo da Vinci


Who theorized 50 anatomical drawings from observed dissections? - ✔✔Leonardo da Vinci


What was popular about anatomy during the Middle Ages? - ✔✔human dissection to research functional

human anatomy



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physiogomy - ✔✔the anatomical structure of the body


Who founded and allowed for the blood-letting of monks? - ✔✔King Henry VIII


Why was blood-letting allowed? - ✔✔to attempt to find a cure for disease


Who were the Christian monks? - ✔✔they were used as guinea pigs for blood letting


What is blood-letting? - ✔✔the release of blood from the body that is though to be "tainted" or "diseased"

as an attempt to cure the person of illness


Who actually performed blood-letting? - ✔✔quack barber-surgeons


What is the significance of the barber shop's red and white striped spinner? - ✔✔signified the blood and

the gauze of the monk's head


Who forbid blood-letting? - ✔✔The Pope


Where did the rise of English undertakers begin? - ✔✔Europe


What kind of medicine was also practiced during the Middle Ages? - ✔✔voodoo medicine


What kinds of caskets were used during the Middle Ages? - ✔✔ice caskets


Who were William and Harvey Hunter? - ✔✔brother physicians who discovered Hunter's Canal


- they dissected for the purpose of studying preservation


Where were caskets originally made? - ✔✔furniture stores and by cabinet makers


Who was Jacob Knorr? - ✔✔German immigrant cabinet-maker in the late 1700s.


- lived in Germantown, Philadelphia


- worked with his nephews, Kirk and Nice




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Where was the first funeral home in the U.S. established? - ✔✔Kirk and Nice Funeral Home in

Germantown area of Philadelphia, PA


About how many funeral homes exist in the U.S. today? - ✔✔~19,000


Who created the first retort in the U.S.? - ✔✔Dr. Julius LeMoyne


Why did Dr. Julius LeMoyne build a retort? - ✔✔he thought that cremation was more sanitary than burial

of a corpse into the ground


When was the first crematory built in the U.S.? - ✔✔1886 by Dr. Julius LeMoyne in Washington, PA


What was the first retort made of? - ✔✔brick and stone


How was the first crematory ignited? - ✔✔with the use of gas


How would ice be delivered in the Middle Ages for ice caskets - ✔✔it would be delivered from northern

Maine to the major city's ice houses where people could buy ice for their caskets and for other uses in

their homes


Who was the first person attributed to embalming by arterial injection in the U.S.? - ✔✔Dr. Thomas

Holmes


When was embalming prevalent by Dr. Thomas Holmes? - ✔✔1860s during the Civil War Era


Who is the Father of American Embalming? - ✔✔Dr. Thomas Holmes


What were the hand pumps used during the civil war to embalm filled with? - ✔✔anything they could

find that would slightly preserve the body; this could include arsenic, alcohol, various poisons, etc.


How effective was the embalming during the civil war era? - ✔✔wasn't enough to preserve as we know

today, but it was able to retard decomposition long enough for the body to be returned home to their

family




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