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Mort 203 EXAM #2 2024 STUDY GUIDE
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Defines this person as skilled in the management of the funeral
procession - Answer✔️✔️-Funeral director
Translated the french Gannal's History of Embalming - Answer✔️✔️-
Dr Richard Harlan
These individual received a patent for a "Refrigerator for corpses" -
Answer✔️✔️-Robert Frederick and G.A. Trump
During this century the acceptance of the need for body
preservation as a necessary preliminary to its proper internment -
Answer✔️✔️-19th Century
In 1843 a patent for the first "corpse preserver" based on the
principle of ice refrigeration was granted to - Answer✔️✔️-John Good
The Greek washing of the body with warm water - Answer✔️✔️-
Roman conclamatio
The burial vault was the invention patented on May 1, 1880, by -
Answer✔️✔️-William H. Bachtel
The development of a line of cloth-covered burial cases as the main
item of manufacture began in 1871 with - Answer✔️✔️-Samuel Stein
and his Stein Patent Burial Casket
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In the 1890s the term ___________ came to dominate the language of
burial receptacles in patent literature - Answer✔️✔️-Casket
The firms specializing in the manufacture of coffin furniture -
Answer✔️✔️-McGraw and Taylor CO., William M. Smith & Co.
A. Traditional wooden coffin
B. Metallic "mummy case"
C. Cloth-covered, metal-reinforced burial case - Answer✔️✔️-In the
19th century burial receptacles commonly used
Latin for torchlight procession - Answer✔️✔️-Funeralis
1. Disembowling
2. Filling the cavity with charcoal
3. Immersing body in alcohol
4. Wrapping the body in cloth soaked in alum (a "sere sheet")
5. Sawdust and tar "embalming" & submerging in wine and spirits
& alcohol - Answer✔️✔️-Early colonists embalming (Crude methods
of preservation)
Received the first patent on a metallic coffin in 1836 - Answer✔️✔️-
James A. Gray of Richmond
"An air-tight coffin of cast or raised metal" patented in 1848 -
Answer✔️✔️-The Fisk Metallic Coffin
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In the ___________ of america the old fashioned coffin slowly
transformed into the modern casket - Answer✔️✔️-19th century
(casket)
Goals
A. Increased utility
B. Importance of the deceased and their family
C. Protection from graverobbers
D. Forces of dissolution - Answer✔️✔️-Coffin and casket makers had
goals that included
American burial built a solid pattern of its own upon its simple
___________ foundation - Answer✔️✔️-Judeo-Christian-English
The period of westward expansion following the ___________ was
marked by the rapid growth and spread of coffin shops focused
exclusively on the production of burial receptacles, and by the
beginning of coffin warehouses - Answer✔️✔️-War of 1812
Coffin furniture (trimmings and fittings) were imported during the -
Answer✔️✔️-18th century
Early colonists in america buried their dead in the - Answer✔️✔️-
Bare earth
Carriages that had fabric top that could be lowered and raised were
named "Landau" carriages - Answer✔️✔️-Landau Bar
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Mort 203 EXAM #2 2024 STUDY GUIDE
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Defines this person as skilled in the management of the funeral
procession - Answer✔️✔️-Funeral director
Translated the french Gannal's History of Embalming - Answer✔️✔️-
Dr Richard Harlan
These individual received a patent for a "Refrigerator for corpses" -
Answer✔️✔️-Robert Frederick and G.A. Trump
During this century the acceptance of the need for body
preservation as a necessary preliminary to its proper internment -
Answer✔️✔️-19th Century
In 1843 a patent for the first "corpse preserver" based on the
principle of ice refrigeration was granted to - Answer✔️✔️-John Good
The Greek washing of the body with warm water - Answer✔️✔️-
Roman conclamatio
The burial vault was the invention patented on May 1, 1880, by -
Answer✔️✔️-William H. Bachtel
The development of a line of cloth-covered burial cases as the main
item of manufacture began in 1871 with - Answer✔️✔️-Samuel Stein
and his Stein Patent Burial Casket
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, ©SOPHIABENNET@2024/2025 Wednesday, August 21, 2024 12:13 PM
In the 1890s the term ___________ came to dominate the language of
burial receptacles in patent literature - Answer✔️✔️-Casket
The firms specializing in the manufacture of coffin furniture -
Answer✔️✔️-McGraw and Taylor CO., William M. Smith & Co.
A. Traditional wooden coffin
B. Metallic "mummy case"
C. Cloth-covered, metal-reinforced burial case - Answer✔️✔️-In the
19th century burial receptacles commonly used
Latin for torchlight procession - Answer✔️✔️-Funeralis
1. Disembowling
2. Filling the cavity with charcoal
3. Immersing body in alcohol
4. Wrapping the body in cloth soaked in alum (a "sere sheet")
5. Sawdust and tar "embalming" & submerging in wine and spirits
& alcohol - Answer✔️✔️-Early colonists embalming (Crude methods
of preservation)
Received the first patent on a metallic coffin in 1836 - Answer✔️✔️-
James A. Gray of Richmond
"An air-tight coffin of cast or raised metal" patented in 1848 -
Answer✔️✔️-The Fisk Metallic Coffin
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, ©SOPHIABENNET@2024/2025 Wednesday, August 21, 2024 12:13 PM
In the ___________ of america the old fashioned coffin slowly
transformed into the modern casket - Answer✔️✔️-19th century
(casket)
Goals
A. Increased utility
B. Importance of the deceased and their family
C. Protection from graverobbers
D. Forces of dissolution - Answer✔️✔️-Coffin and casket makers had
goals that included
American burial built a solid pattern of its own upon its simple
___________ foundation - Answer✔️✔️-Judeo-Christian-English
The period of westward expansion following the ___________ was
marked by the rapid growth and spread of coffin shops focused
exclusively on the production of burial receptacles, and by the
beginning of coffin warehouses - Answer✔️✔️-War of 1812
Coffin furniture (trimmings and fittings) were imported during the -
Answer✔️✔️-18th century
Early colonists in america buried their dead in the - Answer✔️✔️-
Bare earth
Carriages that had fabric top that could be lowered and raised were
named "Landau" carriages - Answer✔️✔️-Landau Bar
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