What kind of information can you find in a 240 year old encyclopedia? Depends on what you’re trying to lookup. It seems the 1768 Encyclopedia Britannica had some wacky entries, including 2 very different cures for farts.

One potential cure is to drink chamomile tea. OK….sounds reasonable enough.

The other potential cure is to blow smoke from a pipe “through the anus”. Not sure about your opinions on the subject, but I’d rather have a few farts (no matter how bad they smell), than a pipe through the anus.

Read the full article here.

And, see the 603,000 Google results for “a pipe through the anus” right here.