The benefit of farting explaind: or, The fundament-all cause of the distempers incident to the fair sex Inquir'd into: proving a posteriori most of the disordures in-tail'd on'em are owing to flatulencies not seasonably vented. Wrote in Spanish, by Don Fart in hando Puss-in dorst, professor of Bun bast 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. By Obadiah Fizle, Groom of the stool to the Princess of Arse-Mini in Sardinia

All titles

• The benefit of farting explaind: or, The fundament-all cause of the distempers incident to the fair sex Inquir'd into: proving a posteriori most of the disordures in-tail'd on'em are owing to flatulencies not seasonably vented. Wrote in Spanish, by Don Fart in hando Puss-in dorst, professor of Bun bast 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. By Obadiah Fizle, Groom of the stool to the Princess of Arse-Mini in Sardinia
• Benefit of farting explain'd

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, 1722. The tenth edition, revis'd by a College of Fizz-icians.; ..

Added name

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Publication year

1722

ESTC No.

T224854

Grub Street ID

246946

Description

12p. ; 4°.

Note

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

With a half-title

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious

Price on title page: Enter'd in the Hall-Book. Price 3d.

Uncontrolled note

See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43