For reals.
From a piece on Booktryst...
Originally appearing in 1722, The Benefit of Farting Explain'd was reprinted in 1735 within a miscellany including two other scatological works. It is a very rare book. The first edition has fallen under the hammer only twice within the last thirty six years, in 1980 and 2007; the same copy. The 1935 edition has not been seen at auction at all within the same period.
This lower intestinal tract has long been attributed to Swift but, according to him is was written by "one Dobbs, a surgeon."
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