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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Puff-indorst, Fart in hando
Other Authors: Swift, Jonathan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's, and Sold by the Booksellers 1727, 1727
Edition:The thirteenth edition, with additions, revis'd
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Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Item Description:Braces in imprint. - English Short Title Catalog, T125299. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - 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
Physical Description:Online-Ressource ([8],11,[1]p) 4°