Final Flashcards
Social customs which MAY be broken without serious consequences
Folkways
The social values of the funeral rite are most commonly learned from
Enculturation
A long hollow tube patented in 1868 by Sam Rogers is used by embalmers to inject hollow cavities and remove excess liquids
Trocar
Ancient Hebrew practice allows family and friends to sit with the deceased as a precaution against premature burial
Shiva
A salt found in a dry lake bed of the desert and used by the ancient Egyptians in preparation of the body
Natron
Social behavior dictated by tradition of the people
Custom
A special funeral functionary in Ancient Rome who summoned participants to a public funeral
Praeco
A funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved, altered to suit the trends of the times
Adaptive funeral
Jars used by the early Egyptians to store the viscera of the deceased
Canonic jars
A brief practice of draining a quantity of blood to cure a disease
Blood letting
Created in the 1800s in London by the poor as a means to afford funerals
Burial clubs
Another name for a funeral procession
Cortege
Ancient Egyptian belief that the soul of the deceased would make a 3000 year journey and return to the body
Circle of necessity
The modern word for funeral is derived from the Latin word that means torch light procession
Funeralis
A method used to apply a continuous flow of embalming solution via manual manipulation of a hand-held mechanism
Hand pump
Disposition via earth burial without any form of funeral rite at the time of disposition
Immediate burial/direct burial?
A family in which the govern of power is shared by both man and woman is referred to as
Egalitarian
Association established in 1928 committed to qualify funeral services and high standards membership is limited one independent funeral home per community
The order of the golden rule
An expectant behavior/pattern enforced by those governing
Law
During these years, 1540-1745 the sole agency permitted to embalm and perform anatomical dissections in the city of London
The barber surgeons
The Roman view of the afterlife which emphasizes the soul as a vital principle
Animism
Required the woolen cloth be substituted foe lined in the shroud and lining of the coffin
Burial and linen act of 1886
A life size wax recreation of the deceased
Effigy
Traveling salesman who went from town to town selling their products
Drummer
Disposition of human remains without any rites or ceremonies
Direct disposition
Apparatus used to inject fluid during vascular arterial phase of embalming process relies on gravity to create pressure required to deliver fluid
Gravity injector
Excavated cemeteries that originated in Ancient Rome
Catacombs
A method of disposing of the body via fire
Cremation
John Hunter
Hunters canal
Dr. Thomas Holmes
Father of embalming in the US
Dr. William Hunter
First to successfully adopt arterial injection
Dr. Frederick Ruysch
Father of embalming
August Hofman
Discovered formaldehyde
A portable table on which the body was placed while the corpse cooler was in use
Cooling board
A report written in 1840 in London that created the first use of the death certificate
Chadwicks report
This individual provided services organizing and facilitating funeral details as an occupation
Funeral director
A type of ice chest places over the torso of the body in order to slow the process of decomposition
Corpse cooler
Burials that take place outside the city walls
Extramural
A specialty connected with funerals in colonial America. This individual called personally upon those expected to attend funerals. The position was often A municipal appointed position
Invited to funerals