Principles of Embalming Midterm.Final Test 2026\2027.
False
Herodotus was know for embalming without evisceration
Lenonardo Da Vinci
Although best know as an Italian Renaissance painter, this gentleman produced hundreds of anatomical
plates as a result of his dissection of more than 30 bodies, and used injections of was into the arterial
system for preservation.
thigh:femoral
One of the Hunter brothers did most of his embalming from a particular area of the body, and that region
was described and documented by the other brother. The region that was described was the (a), and the
large artery passing through that region used by the Hunters for arterial injection was the (b) artery.
Prince Greer
Became the first documented black embalmer in U.S. History
False
Thomas Holmes published Jean Gannal's "History of Embalming", which then became the first embalming
textbook i the United States.
Butlerov and Hofmann
Are credited with discovery of formaldehyde
John Hunter
This surgeon and anatomy lecturer so distinguished himself that a region of the body that he described
was in his honor.
Jivaro Indians
preserved heads by shrinking them
Joseph Clarke
Founder of what would later be known as the Cincinnati College of Embalming:
Jean Gannal
Was indirectly responsible for passage of the first law prohibiting the use of arsenic in embalming
solutions in 1846
Lena Simmons
Founder of Simmons School of Embalming
Marcello Malpighi
First to discover capillaries
Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Considered to be the inventor of the microscope:
, Principles of Embalming Midterm.Final Test 2026\2027.
Capuchin monks
The bodies of their dead were dried slowly in an oven, then placed in upright positions along the walls of
catacombs.
Fredrick Ruysch
who is the father of embalming.
Joesph Clarke
Founder of the Clarke School of Embalming
Auguste Renouard
Wrote the first embalming textbook in the United States
False
Formaldehyde got its start being used in embalming fluids during the early Anatomists period
Herodotus
Father of history
William Harvey
Discovered the circulation of blood
Jean Gannal
Author of what would become the first book entirely to embalming procedure published in the United
States in English.
Marcello Malpighi
Founder of microscopic anatomy
True
Auguste Renouard published "The Undertaker's Manual", which was the first book published specifically as
an embalming textbook in the U.S
canopic jars
Ancient Egyptians used these during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of
their owner for the afterlife.
Thomas Holmes
Who is the Father of Modern Embalming in the U.S
Samuel Rodgers
Invented the trocar
Henry Cattell
embalmed President Lincoln in 1865.
False
Auguste Renouard wrote "The History of Embalming", which was the first embalming textbook to be
published in the U.S.
Gabriel Clauderus
False
Herodotus was know for embalming without evisceration
Lenonardo Da Vinci
Although best know as an Italian Renaissance painter, this gentleman produced hundreds of anatomical
plates as a result of his dissection of more than 30 bodies, and used injections of was into the arterial
system for preservation.
thigh:femoral
One of the Hunter brothers did most of his embalming from a particular area of the body, and that region
was described and documented by the other brother. The region that was described was the (a), and the
large artery passing through that region used by the Hunters for arterial injection was the (b) artery.
Prince Greer
Became the first documented black embalmer in U.S. History
False
Thomas Holmes published Jean Gannal's "History of Embalming", which then became the first embalming
textbook i the United States.
Butlerov and Hofmann
Are credited with discovery of formaldehyde
John Hunter
This surgeon and anatomy lecturer so distinguished himself that a region of the body that he described
was in his honor.
Jivaro Indians
preserved heads by shrinking them
Joseph Clarke
Founder of what would later be known as the Cincinnati College of Embalming:
Jean Gannal
Was indirectly responsible for passage of the first law prohibiting the use of arsenic in embalming
solutions in 1846
Lena Simmons
Founder of Simmons School of Embalming
Marcello Malpighi
First to discover capillaries
Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Considered to be the inventor of the microscope:
, Principles of Embalming Midterm.Final Test 2026\2027.
Capuchin monks
The bodies of their dead were dried slowly in an oven, then placed in upright positions along the walls of
catacombs.
Fredrick Ruysch
who is the father of embalming.
Joesph Clarke
Founder of the Clarke School of Embalming
Auguste Renouard
Wrote the first embalming textbook in the United States
False
Formaldehyde got its start being used in embalming fluids during the early Anatomists period
Herodotus
Father of history
William Harvey
Discovered the circulation of blood
Jean Gannal
Author of what would become the first book entirely to embalming procedure published in the United
States in English.
Marcello Malpighi
Founder of microscopic anatomy
True
Auguste Renouard published "The Undertaker's Manual", which was the first book published specifically as
an embalming textbook in the U.S
canopic jars
Ancient Egyptians used these during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of
their owner for the afterlife.
Thomas Holmes
Who is the Father of Modern Embalming in the U.S
Samuel Rodgers
Invented the trocar
Henry Cattell
embalmed President Lincoln in 1865.
False
Auguste Renouard wrote "The History of Embalming", which was the first embalming textbook to be
published in the U.S.
Gabriel Clauderus
