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| Three early functions of the Barber-Surgeon. |
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Blood letting
Surgery
Embalming |
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| The most popular material used in the making of burial receptacles during the 1800s in America. |
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| A man who had a patent on a life signal. |
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| A man who was the greatest of physiologists and injected colored solution into the arteries to support his theories concerning circulation. |
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| Which religious group used catacombs? |
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| Why was the intramural burial much sought after during the Middle Ages? |
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| Fear of vampires and ghouls |
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| What was Dionysus the god of? |
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| Why was dissection forbidden by the clergy in the Middle Ages? |
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| It was considered impious to mutilate a dead body |
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| During the Middle Ages, as churchyards filled with buried bodies, what did Christians decide to do with their dead? |
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| Bury them outside the city |
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| Which under officer of the church became responsible for the church's burial site? |
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| An organization that carries material interest as its primary motive. |
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| During the Middle Ages, what created a health nuisance? |
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| What was the most significant contribution of Roman practice to modern funeral practice? |
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| During the Middle Ages, what was a major concern with cemeteries within a city? |
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| Who is considered to be the originator of the injection technique of preserving human remains? |
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| Who made 750 anatomical plates? |
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| For an ancient Greek official, what could happen if they neglected the dead of a proper service and burial? |
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| A disqualification from office |
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| For the ancient Egyptians, how many major embalming methods were there? |
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| Where does the origin of the word 'hearse' come from? |
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| The person who introduced cavity embalming by the trocar method. |
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| 'Funeralis' is the Latin term for what? |
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| Who was the 'Father of American Embalming'? |
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| Who was the man responsible for the first school held under institutional auspices (Pulte Medical College)? |
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| What does the Latin term 'hirpex' mean? |
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| Why were torches carried at the head of the procession of the early Christians? |
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| To show progression of a victorious combatant in God's eye |
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| Who considered the Libitinarius the 'head undertaker'? |
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| Person who featured a 4 post 'funeral car' at the New Orleans cotton expo. |
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| Lights (burning torches) carried at the head of a funeral procession indicates a continuance of what? |
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| Carryover from night funeral processions |
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| What were the black bands worn on arms of gentlemen in mourning called? |
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| Why was burial prohibited within the Roman city walls? |
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| Concerns regarding sanitation |
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| Who was instrumental in spurring interest in disinfection of remains via chemical embalming? |
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| What year was the trocar patented? |
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| Funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved; altered to suit the trends of the times. |
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| Organization with responsibility to accredit funeral service and mortuary science programs. |
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| American Board of Funeral Service Education |
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| Early Roman view of the afterlife which emphasizes the soul as the vital principle. |
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| a national trade association representing The major granite and marble memorial manufacturers and quarries throughout the United States |
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| American Monument Association |
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| Organizations intended to assist people of the working classes, particularly guild members, to defray the heavy expenses of the funeral and to perpetuate the memory of dead friends; costs were shared by others via weekly collections; were the forerunners of industrial insurance. |
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| Raised platform (with or without a canopy) used for a body to lie in state. |
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| A report published in 1843 on unsanitary conditions in London created by intramural burials and the high cost of funerals; recommended use of a death certificate. |
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| Historical term for funeral procession. |
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| What year was the Cremation Association of North America founded? |
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| Master of ceremonies and director of the ancient Roman funeral procession |
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| Patented in 1848 as form-fitting, airtight metallic coffin designed to improve ability to preserve the body; also had a glass plate to allow for viewing of the face. |
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| Promoted the study and use of cost accounting methods to foster the business interests of its members and to help dispel the aura of mystery that was felt to exist it the public mind regarding the business of funeral directing. |
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| Funeral Service Bureau of America |
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| A national organization which advances professionalism in funeral service and enhances public knowledge and understanding through education and research. |
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| Funeral Service Foundation |
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| International trade association representing all segments of the cemetery, funeral service, cremation and memorialization profession. |
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| International Cemetery, Cremation, and Funeral Association |
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| An organization of independent, family owned funeral homes established in 1928, whose mission is to build and support member interaction, information exchange and professional business development through a wide range of programs, services and resources; membership limited to one funeral home per community. |
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| International Order of the Golden Rule |
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| An association which guides, aids and supports members in honoring the deceased and comforting the bereaved by preserving, promoting and practicing the customs and traditions of the Jewish funeral. |
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| Jewish Funeral Directors of America |
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| Became an occupational specialty practiced by women in many larger US cities by the end of the 18th century; predecessor to the undertaker. |
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| Formed in Middle Ages by laypersons to bury the dead and to pray for the souls of the faithful departed. |
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| The ancient Roman goddess of corpses and funerals |
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| An international trade association of persons and firms in the memorial industry. |
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| Monument Builders of North America |
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| Ancient Viking custom; after deceased was placed in his boat with items necessary for the spirit to maintain the position held on earth, all was cremated and the pyre then covered with earth. |
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| Established in 1942 as an organization for privately sponsored schools with the goal of advancement of mortuary education. |
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| National Association of Colleges of Mortuary Science |
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| An organization of concrete burial vault manufacturers, whose purpose is to provide a unified voice for the concrete burial vault industry, and to continually research and develop, then specify and promote minimum performance standards. |
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| National Concrete Burial Vault Association |
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| The oldest and largest national association of funeral directors and embalmers organized in 1882, that provides advocacy, education, information, products, programs and services to help members enhance the quality of services to families. |
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| National Funeral Directors Association |
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Organized in 1924 as the
Independent National Funeral Directors Association (present name adopted in 1957); established to represent specific interests of African-American funeral directors. |
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| National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association |
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| A combination of salts found in dry lake beds of the desert and used by early Egyptians in preparation of bodies. Deceased covered in the product (sodium chloride, sodium carbonate, sodium sulfate, and potassium nitrate) were dehydrated thus preventing decay. |
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| Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead. |
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| Name of the ancient Roman embalmers. They were either slaves or employees of Libitinarius. |
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| Catholic belief that those whose souls are not perfectly cleansed undergo a process of cleansing before they can enter heaven. |
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| A limited, invitation-only membership funeral service organization formed in 1917 on the basis of one member firm per city (formerly National Selected Morticians (NSM). |
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| Selected Independent Funeral Homes |
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| Mortuary fee paid to insure entrance of the decedent’s soul into heaven. |
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| Organization of college and university based funeral service programs established in 1961. |
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| University Mortuary Science Education Association |
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| What material was the winding sheet made of? |
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| The understanding of reuniting the essential parts of man for life after death was made possible by what group? |
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| At what time of day were ordinary Roman funerals conducted? |
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| The belief that all men are created equally and eternal rewards in the afterlife are not assigned according to rank on earth was held by what group? |
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| The practice of burying clergy with their feet to the East was so they would rise first at Christ's coming to help with what? |
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| To assist Christ in gathering the flock |
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| The 'religious circuit' which reassembled the essential parts (ka and ba) needed for the Egyptian person's survival in the afterlife. |
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| The Roman influence on funeral service is between what dates? |
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| Who is considered to be the originator of the injection technique of preserving human remains? |
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| Early Christians desired to be buried where? |
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| Egyptian embalming was introduced during the fourth dynasty at approximately what year? |
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| The Egyptian superintendent of the embalming process. |
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| Who is the man known as the 'Father of Embalming' who is credited with the discovery of the first successful system of arterial embalming? |
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| What is the prime function of any accreditation of a mortuary school? |
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| A protection for the student degree |
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| For the ancient Germans and Scandinavians, what was the true conductor of the dead and emancipator of the soul? |
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| The custom of gift giving was brought over to the colonies from which country? |
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| From which early civilization did the Roman society adopt their culture? |
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| What was the first state to set up a Board of Health (1869)? |
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| What was the name of the plague which lasted from 1664 to 1665 and killed 68,596 people? |
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| The great plague of London |
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| The first black embalmer. |
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| The first Christian Roman emperor. |
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| The first national convention was held in which city? |
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| What color was most popular as a Christian mourning color? |
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| Which group was probably the first to practice cremation as a culture? |
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| The first state to adopt a regulatory bill to set up boards and develop licensure and educational requirements for embalmers. |
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| The first funeral trolley was first put into use in which city? |
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| Which group practiced independent heart and bone burial? |
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| Christians during the Middle Ages |
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| The gift given by the Dutch that was supposed to resemble a likeness of an apostle. |
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| Which company produced the 'ogee' design? |
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| Which ancient culture gave an extra allotment of inheritance to the eldest son for upkeep of the tomb? |
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| The Christian practice of Viaticum was patterned after which Greek procedure? |
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| Placement of a coin in the mouth of the deceased |
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