Still not over that Jonathan Swift, the guy who wrote Gulliver's Travels, also wrote The Benefits of Farting. This may just be a person on wikipedia being goofy, but check out this beautiful quote from his Works section:
The Benefit of Farting Explained, published under the pseudonym Don Fartinando Puff-Indorst, Professor of Bumbast in the University of Crackow.
Update: it is real and from the 1700s:
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-benefit-of-farting-e_puff-indorst-fart-in-ha_1727
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