Mort 203 EXAM #2 Questions and Answers well Explained Latest 2024/2025 Update 100% Correct.
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When the trade of coffin making became a full-time occupation, coffin-shops emerged followed by coffin
warehouses and furnishings undertakers - True
Due to the fear of pre-mature burial, many early American coffins were designed and patented with a
method to alert the living if someone was burie...
When the trade of coffin making became a full-time occupation, coffin-shops emerged followed by coffin
warehouses and furnishings undertakers - True
Due to the fear of pre-mature burial, many early American coffins were designed and patented with a
method to alert the living if someone was buried alive. - Life signals
Resurrectionist
Body snatchers
Bodies from graves to sell to anatomists - Fears of burial
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 - War of 1812
Defines this person as skilled in the management of the funeral procession - Funeral director
Translated the french Gannal's History of Embalming - Dr Richard Harlan
These individual received a patent for a "Refrigerator for corpses" - Robert Frederick and G.A.
Trump
In 1843 a patent for the first "corpse preserver" based on the principle of ice refrigeration was granted to
- John Good
The Greek washing of the body with warm water - Roman conclamatio
,The burial vault was the invention patented on May 1, 1880, by - William H. Bachtel
The development of a line of cloth-covered burial cases as the main item of manufacture began in 1871
with - Samuel Stein and his Stein Patent Burial Casket
In the 1890s the term ___________ came to dominate the language of burial receptacles in patent
literature - Casket
The firms specializing in the manufacture of coffin furniture - McGraw and Taylor CO., William M.
Smith & Co.
A. Traditional wooden coffin
B. Metallic "mummy case"
C. Cloth-covered, metal-reinforced burial case - In the 19th century burial receptacles commonly
used
Latin for torchlight procession - 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 - Early colonists
embalming (Crude methods of preservation)
Received the first patent on a metallic coffin in 1836 - James A. Gray of Richmond
"An air-tight coffin of cast or raised metal" patented in 1848 - The Fisk Metallic Coffin
, In the ___________ of america the old fashioned coffin slowly transformed into the modern casket -
19th century (casket)
Goals
A. Increased utility
B. Importance of the deceased and their family
C. Protection from graverobbers
D. Forces of dissolution - Coffin and casket makers had goals that included
American burial built a solid pattern of its own upon its simple ___________ foundation - Judeo-
Christian-English
Coffin furniture (trimmings and fittings) were imported during the - 18th century
Early colonists in america buried their dead in the - Bare earth
Carriages that had fabric top that could be lowered and raised were named "Landau" carriages -
Landau Bar
Adult and child versions of hearses: Nearly always the color - White
Until the civil war hearses were black. After the war they were varied, sometimes gray but mostly a dark
color. The size increased in length and width after the war. - Post Civil War
Modern terminology for hearses - coach/funeral coach
The name given to the vehicle used by undertakers to transport the necessary mortuary paraphernalia to
the homes where funerals were typically held. These vehicles sometimes had an appearance similar to a
hearse, but were much less ornate - Undertaker's buggy
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