MORS 101 - Exam 2 Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
Predestination - Answers During Protestant Reformation, God has predestined who lives/dies/
no need for medicine
Renaissance / Age of Enlightenment - Answers Time of rebirth of science
More natural, oils, salt peter, vinegar, vermillion - Answers Chemicals used by anatomists in
early middle ages to 1350
Salts of heavy metals/metallic poisons, zinc, arsenic, aluminum chloride, etc. - Answers
Chemicals used from 1350 forwards
Leonardo Da Vinci - Answers Dissected at least 50 bodies, made 750 anatomical plates for
study, which still exist in Italian museums
Dr. Frederick Ruysch - Answers "Father of Embalming" (world)
-Discovered successful system of arterial injection, which he combined w/ evisceration (clotted
pig's blood, mercury)
Thomas Holmes - Answers Father of Embalming in US
Marcello Malphighi - Answers -"Father of Histology"
-Founded microscopic anatomy
-first to find capillary bed
Girolamo Segato - Answers -Injected remains w/ silicate of potash
-Immersed in weak acid
-Stone-like statue (Egyptologist & studied mummification)
Dr. William Harvey - Answers Discovered blood circulation by injecting colored solutions into
arteries
Dr. Gabriel Clauderus - Answers -book the art of "Arterial Embalming w/o Evisceration"
-Inject major arteries, Balsamic spirits, cavity treatment, desiccate in heat
Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek - Answers -Father of Microbiology
-Discovered single cell organism
Dr. William Hunter & John Hunter - Answers -Published "Hunterian Method of Preservation",
which is the standard of the day
, -Circulatory of mom & baby are separate
Hunter's Canal - Answers Area of femorals for injection/drainage
Jean Nicholas Gannal - Answers -First Medical Anatomist to combine embalming w/
funeralization
-Wrote "History of Embalming"
Thomas Greenhill - Answers -wrote "Treatise on the Art of Embalming"
-severe criticism of British Tradesman Undertaker's inferior work & defended Barber-Surgeons
Michael Makeland - Answers British Tradesman Undertaker who challenged right of the Barber-
Surgeons to monopolize the practice
Undertaker - Answers After 1600: One who prepares the dead for burial and supplies funeral
paraphernalia; many were sextons - or- one who performs funeral tasks
Heralds - Answers Secular funeral directors for pay
Prior to 1600 - Answers To what point were churches running funerals and there was not a lot of
embalming?
Feudal Funerals - Answers Peak of Heraldry and pomp; no expense spared; Funeral marked
beginning of Christina's true life in heaven
Friendly Societies - Answers -Descendants of the Leagues of Prayer
-Coffins introduced for all classes
Warburton Act of 1832 - Answers Allowed British Medical Schools to use unclaimed bodies for
cadavers
Edwin Chadwick - Answers In 1842, this English reformer recommended that a medical officer
certify the cause of death before burial
Roman Catholics - Answers The Maryland colony was originally founded as a refuge for this
religious group
Skull & crossbones - Answers This symbol, frequently used on New England gravestones in the
17th century, was later replaced by the winged cherub
Rings, scarves, gloves - Answers Three types of gifts given at Colonial funerals in late 1700's
1. Announcing funeral by tolling bell
2. digging graves - Answers What tasks did the sexton charge for?
Predestination - Answers During Protestant Reformation, God has predestined who lives/dies/
no need for medicine
Renaissance / Age of Enlightenment - Answers Time of rebirth of science
More natural, oils, salt peter, vinegar, vermillion - Answers Chemicals used by anatomists in
early middle ages to 1350
Salts of heavy metals/metallic poisons, zinc, arsenic, aluminum chloride, etc. - Answers
Chemicals used from 1350 forwards
Leonardo Da Vinci - Answers Dissected at least 50 bodies, made 750 anatomical plates for
study, which still exist in Italian museums
Dr. Frederick Ruysch - Answers "Father of Embalming" (world)
-Discovered successful system of arterial injection, which he combined w/ evisceration (clotted
pig's blood, mercury)
Thomas Holmes - Answers Father of Embalming in US
Marcello Malphighi - Answers -"Father of Histology"
-Founded microscopic anatomy
-first to find capillary bed
Girolamo Segato - Answers -Injected remains w/ silicate of potash
-Immersed in weak acid
-Stone-like statue (Egyptologist & studied mummification)
Dr. William Harvey - Answers Discovered blood circulation by injecting colored solutions into
arteries
Dr. Gabriel Clauderus - Answers -book the art of "Arterial Embalming w/o Evisceration"
-Inject major arteries, Balsamic spirits, cavity treatment, desiccate in heat
Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek - Answers -Father of Microbiology
-Discovered single cell organism
Dr. William Hunter & John Hunter - Answers -Published "Hunterian Method of Preservation",
which is the standard of the day
, -Circulatory of mom & baby are separate
Hunter's Canal - Answers Area of femorals for injection/drainage
Jean Nicholas Gannal - Answers -First Medical Anatomist to combine embalming w/
funeralization
-Wrote "History of Embalming"
Thomas Greenhill - Answers -wrote "Treatise on the Art of Embalming"
-severe criticism of British Tradesman Undertaker's inferior work & defended Barber-Surgeons
Michael Makeland - Answers British Tradesman Undertaker who challenged right of the Barber-
Surgeons to monopolize the practice
Undertaker - Answers After 1600: One who prepares the dead for burial and supplies funeral
paraphernalia; many were sextons - or- one who performs funeral tasks
Heralds - Answers Secular funeral directors for pay
Prior to 1600 - Answers To what point were churches running funerals and there was not a lot of
embalming?
Feudal Funerals - Answers Peak of Heraldry and pomp; no expense spared; Funeral marked
beginning of Christina's true life in heaven
Friendly Societies - Answers -Descendants of the Leagues of Prayer
-Coffins introduced for all classes
Warburton Act of 1832 - Answers Allowed British Medical Schools to use unclaimed bodies for
cadavers
Edwin Chadwick - Answers In 1842, this English reformer recommended that a medical officer
certify the cause of death before burial
Roman Catholics - Answers The Maryland colony was originally founded as a refuge for this
religious group
Skull & crossbones - Answers This symbol, frequently used on New England gravestones in the
17th century, was later replaced by the winged cherub
Rings, scarves, gloves - Answers Three types of gifts given at Colonial funerals in late 1700's
1. Announcing funeral by tolling bell
2. digging graves - Answers What tasks did the sexton charge for?
