ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Periods of embalming history - CORRECT ANSWER - a) Egyptian period
b) Anatomist period
c) Modern eriod
Egyptian period - CORRECT ANSWER - for religious purposes; began to decline with
Christianity
Anatomist period - CORRECT ANSWER - anatomical studies
Modern period - CORRECT ANSWER - funerary purposes, public transportation, and
public health
Dark ages - CORRECT ANSWER - bought about a renewed interest in learning including
anatomy of the body
Warburton Act - CORRECT ANSWER - gave medical schools access to dead bodies in
England
The Crusades (1095-1291) - CORRECT ANSWER - created the need to transfer soldiers
bodies killed in battle home to their families; created the first crude methods of perservation
Procedure for sending bodies of soldiers to their families - CORRECT ANSWER --
disemboweling and disarticulating the body
-cutting off all soft tissue
-boiling and drying the bones
, -wrapping the boned within bull hides and returning then via courier to their homeland
Early attempts at preservation - CORRECT ANSWER - -drying the body parts by
exposure to the sun or in ovens
-warm air forced through the blood vessels removed blood and eventually dried out the tissue
-injections of the blood vascular system for tracing the circulatory system and anatomical study
not for preservation of the body
Early injection instruments - CORRECT ANSWER - a container (usually similar to a
syringe)
a form of cannula (A hollow tube like instrument)
During the anatomist perion embalming limited to - CORRECT ANSWER - The elite,
clergy, nobility, and landowners
Ambroise Pare - CORRECT ANSWER - improved the ides of using ligature to control
bleeding after amputation
Bartholin - CORRECT ANSWER - developed the first continuous flow syringe
Developed the technique of arterial injection of a preservation into the vascular system was
developed by: - CORRECT ANSWER - Swammerdam
Ruysch
Blanchard
Swammerdam - CORRECT ANSWER - the original discoverer of the arterial injection
technique
Ruysch - CORRECT ANSWER - refined the technique of arterial injection; was the Father
of Embalming in Europe