Fletcherism: What It Is; Or, How I Became Young at Sixty

by Horace Fletcher

[CONTENTS]

CHAPTER		PAGE
	[INTRODUCTION]	ix
	[PREFACE]	xi
I	[HOW I BECAME A FLETCHERITE]	1
II	[SCIENTIFIC TESTS]	15
III	[WHAT I AM ASKED ABOUT FLETCHERISM]	32
IV	[RULES OF FLETCHERISM]	51
V	[WHAT IS PROPER MASTICATION?]	64
VI	[WHAT IS HEAD DIGESTION?]	73
VII	[CHITTENDEN ON CAREFUL CHEWING]	84
VIII	[THE THREE INCHES OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY]	91
IX	[QUESTION PRESCRIPTION AND PROSCRIPTION]	104
X	[WHAT CONSTITUTES A FLETCHERITE]	116
XI	[ALL DECENT EATERS ARE FLETCHERITES]	126
XII	[FLETCHERIZING AS A TEMPERANCE EXPEDIENT]	138
XIII	[THE MENACE OF MODERN MIXED MENUS]	158
XIV	[THE CRUX OF FLETCHERISM]	170
XV	[FLETCHERISM AND VEGETARIANISM]	180
	[APPENDIX]	197
	[INDEX]	221

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[ILLUSTRATIONS]

The Author	Frontispiece
	FACING
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The Author Testing His Endurance by Means of the Kellog Mercurial Dynamometer	[16]
The Author Undergoing a Test at Yale When He Made a World's Record on the Irving Fisher Endurance Testing Machine	[28]
The Author Feeling Himself to Be the Most Fortunate Person Alive	[70]
Horace Fletcher in His Master of Arts Robes	[98]
The Author, on his Sixtieth Birthday, Performing Feats of Agility and Strength which Would Be Remarkable Even in a Young Athlete	[100]

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[INTRODUCTION]

Fletcherism has become a fact.