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Fart in hando Puff-indorst

A wonderfully outrageous pseudonym from the world of eighteenth-century satire, attached to a bizarre medical parody about the supposed benefits of farting. Behind the joke, the true author remains uncertain, making this a curious literary mystery as well as a comic relic.

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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.

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.

by Fart in hando Puff-indorst

About the author

Fart in hando Puff-indorst—also styled Don Fartinando Puff-Indorst—appears as the author of The Benefit of Farting Explain'd, a short satirical work first recorded in 1722. The title presents him as a Spanish professor at the fictional University of Cracow, while its fanciful imprint and exaggerated names signal a deliberate comic performance rather than a trustworthy biography.

The work has sometimes been attributed to Jonathan Swift, but that attribution is disputed. Library records note that Swift himself reportedly attributed it to “one Dobbs a surgeon,” leaving the author’s real identity unresolved. No reliable portrait of this pseudonymous figure has been identified.