The benefit of farting explain'd: or, the fundament-all cause of the distempers incident to the fair sex. Inquir'd into: Proving à Posteriori most of the Disordures in tail'd on, them are owing to Flatulencies not seasonably vented. Wrote in Spanish, by Don Fart-Inhando Puff-Indorst Professor of Bumbast in the University of Craccow. And translated into English at the request and for the use of the Lady Damp-Fart, of Her-Fart-Shire. A Fart, tho' wholesome does not fail, If barr'd of Passage by the Tail, To fly back to the Head again, And by its Fumes disturb the Brain: Thus Gun-Powder confin'd, you know Sir, Grows stronger, as 'tis ram'd the closer; But, if in open Air it fires, In harmless Smoke its Force expires.

People / Organizations

• Fart in hando Puff-indorst (Author)
• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's, and Sold by the Booksellers, 1727.

Publication year

1727-1727

ESTC No.

T125299

Grub Street ID

175444

Description

[8],11,[1]p. ; 4⁰

Note

Sometimes attributed to Jonathan Swift, attributeed by him ('Correspondence' 2:121) to "one Dobbs a surgeon".

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious.

Braces in imprint.

Uncontrolled note

See Teerink 19. This item appears in some Miscellanies, but the authorship is doubtful. - See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43