If you think modern wellness culture has gone too far, allow me to introduce a 17th-century solution to a problem everyone had but no one wanted to acknowledge. It was called the vanvera, and it existed for one reason. Aristocrats needed a way to fart without ruining dinner. The vanvera shows up in historical oddities […] The post Did 17th-Century Rich People Really Use This Device to Hide Their Farts? appeared first on VICE .