Here’s something interesting about farts. You can read more about this from the Merck Manual, 18th edition.
Essay on Flatulence
(First printed in the 14th edition of the Merck Manual)
Flatulence, which can cause great psychosocial distress, is unofficially described according to its salient characteristics:
- The ‘Slider’ ( crowded elevator type), which is released slowly and noiselessly, sometimes with devastating effect;
- The Open sphincter, or ‘pooh’ type, which is said to be of higher temperature and more aromatic;
- The ‘Bark’ type (described in a personal communication) is characterized by a sharp exclamatory eruption that effectively interrupts (and often concludes) conversation. Aromaticity is not a prominent feature; and
- The ‘Staccato’ or the drumbeat type, pleasantly passed in privacy.
Rarely, this usually distressing symptom has been turned to advantage, as with a Frenchman referred to as ‘Le Petomane’, who became affluent as an effluent performer who played tunes with the gas from his rectum on the Moulin Rouge stage.