Mortuary Science History 2
Averil - answer funeral feast
Barbe - answera linen garment worn under the chin by widows
Cerecloth - answera shroud treated with wax, alum, or a resinous substance
Coffin - answeranthropoid container for a dead human body
Confraternities - answerformed outside the church
Doctrine of Purgatory - answersouls that are not perfectly cleansed undergo a process of cleansing before they can enter heaven
Effigies - answerwax or wood "imitation dummies" of the deceased
Guild - answerlike a union; working men of each trade were members of associations called guild
Independent Burial - answerpractice of "dividing up" parts of a body for burial in different
places
Independent Heart Burial - answerspecial prominence being given to the heart
Independent Bone Burial - answerspecial prominence being given to the bones. more frequent
Intramural Burial - answerburial within a city
Extramural Burial - answerburial outside of a city
Leagues of Prayer - answergroups of people who prayed for a deceased member of the
"League"
Quarterage - answera funeral fee levied among guild members to pay of the funeral of a
member
Sepulchral Monuments - answerstone coffins whose lids formed a continuous portion of the pavement of churches. Found inside and outside Sexton - answera minor church official, delegated to the care of church property, the ringing of bells, and digging of graves
Shroud - answera covering for the body upon death
Sin Eater - answera person (usually male), who for a fee would take on the sins of the deceased
Soul Shot - answerthe funeral fee
Barber- Surgeons - answera London guild, who exercised strict domain over the right to embalm between 1540 and 1745
Frederick Ruysch - answera dutch physician; considered the Father of Embalming because of his successful system of arterial embalming
Gabriel Clauder - answera German physician; also devised a means of arterial injection but did not describe the fluid he used
Alexander Butlerov and Wilhelm Von Hofmann - answercredited with the discovery of formaldehyde
Leonardo De Vinci - answerItalian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer and scientist born in Tuscany. Used arterial injection to preserve his specimens
William Harvey - answerEnglish physician and anatomist who announced his discovery of the true nature of the circulation of blood and the function of the heart
William Hunter - answerScottish anatomist and physician who described directions for the use of arterial and cavity embalming; considered the "Originator of the Injection Technique of Embalming"
Marcello Malphigi - answer"Father of Comparative Anatomy"; "Father of Histology"; discovered capillaries
Memento Mori - answerimage that urged a European person to "remember thy death"
Ambrose Pare - answerFrench barber- surgeon considered to be "Father of Modern Surgery"
Aanspreecker - answera Dutch licensed official who invited people to funerals
Funeral Gifts - answergifts such as mourning rings, gloves, scarves, and monkey spoons given to those who attended the funeral
Monkey Spoons - answera spoon with the image of an Apostle in the handle
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