Seeking a voidance pamphlet
We would appreciate hearing from someone who can supply us with a copy (ideally, a PDF) of the pamphlet “Good Defecation Dynamics,” which is published by the National Health Service trust in Dundee, Scotland.
We learned of its existence from a May 4, 2006 report in the National Post, which introduced the topic in a sensibly roundabout way:
…they came to a rough estimate of the birds’ defecation pressure, which at 60 kilopascals is considerably less than that of a fully inflated bicycle tire, but still high enough that, barring the effects of wind, a penguin can expel waste from its nest without actually leaving it.
That remarkable conclusion, which earned the scientists an Ig Nobel Prize when it was published last year, was back in the news this week when a National Health Service trust in Dundee, Scotland, endorsed the practice of defecating with an open mouth.
In a four-page pamphlet titled “Good Defecation Dynamics” and distributed to clinics and doctors’ offices, the NHS trust describes the art of voidance, complete with diagrams.