Editing Disembowelment (section)

==Mummification and embalming==
Some types of [[animal mummification]] include evisceration.<ref>{{cite book |last1=ikram |first1=salima |title=divine creatures: animal mummies in ancient egypt |date=2005 |publisher=American Univ in Cairo Press |isbn=978-977-424-858-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zz5oNwmdaTcC |language=en}}</ref> The process of [[embalming]] sometimes includes removing the internal organs. [[Mummy|Mummification]], especially as practiced by the [[ancient Egypt]]ians, entailed the removal of internal organs prior to the preservation of the remainder of the body.  The removed organs were embalmed, stored in [[canopic jars]] and then placed in the tomb with the body.

James Cook, on his second voyage, noted an embalming custom on some of the Pacific islands his crew visited, a custom utilizing transanal evisceration:<ref>* {{cite book|last=Potts|first=James|title=The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JbkRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA693|year=1784|publisher=James Potts|location=Dublin|page=693, col 2|access-date=2013-03-16}}</ref>{{blockquote|We found the body not only entire in every part; but, what surprised us much more, was, that putrefaction had scarcely begun (...); though the climate is one of the hottest, and Tee had been dead above five months.(...) Such were Mr. [[William Anderson (naturalist)|Anderson]]'s remarks to me, who also told me, on his enquiring into the method of effecting this preservation of their dead bodies, he had been informed, that, soon after their death, they are disemboweled, by drawing their intestines, and other viscera, out at the anus; and the whole cavity is then filled or stuffed with cloth; introduced through the same part(...)}}