Embalming

Catalog description

Embalming is a course that will examine the purpose and need for embalming. This will include types of death, signs of death, tests for death, postmortem changes, ethics of embalming, chemical and physical changes, selection and raising of vessels, discolorations, types of embalming chemicals, injection, drainage, and dilution. This course will also survey chemistry, microbiology, and pathology as applied to embalming.