- A
Abstinence, long abstinence from food harmless, [20], [133]
Aggressive hospitality, [118]
Alcohol, the abuse of, [135], [140]
Alcoholic stimulant, [145]
Amundsen, Captain, [185]
Anderson, Doctor W. G., [18];
begins Fletcherizing, [23];
at Yale test, [24], et seq., [143]
Appetite, [6];
wait for a true, [10];
selects simplest foods, [36], [136];
is true hunger, [52];
resting the, [56]
Atwater, Professor, [12];
his diet standard, [110]
B
Bacterial Decomposition, [58]
Battle Creek Sanatorium, experiments on members, [21]
Beer, how to take, [60], [121]
Bowditch, Doctor H. P., [15], [125]
Bradefagy, [65]
Business men and Fletcherism, [41], [43]
C
Calorie, the heat unit, [61]
Calorimeter, [6]l
Cannon, Doctor, [81], [125]
Carbohydrates in human diet, [61]
Chanute, [124]
Chewing, and Fletcherism, [66];
Mr. Gladstone on, [67]
Chittenden, Professor, visited by Mr. Fletcher, [16];
volunteers to experiment, [18];
on careful chewing, [85] et seq.;
on head digestion, [83]
Christian Endeavour Society, [44]
Circumvalate papillæ, [9]
Cornaro, Luigi, [118]
D
Decency and Fletcherism, [126]
Delirium tremens, a cure, [153]
Diet, prejudice against unaccustomed, [94]
Diet standard, the best suited to economy and efficiency, [60];
Voit's, [109]
Dietetic righteousness, the Gospel of, [50], [128], et seq.
Digestion-ash, the, [58], [59], [93]
Dow, Hon. A. G., [49]
E
Economy of Fletcherism, [41]
Emerson, [129]
Endurance tests: Irving Fisher's, [21];
Granger's and Wagner's, [21]-[22];
Mr. Fletcher's at Yale, [24] et seq.
Epicure, the true, [47]
Excess of food, difficulty of getting rid of, [38];
fermentation of, [47]
Experiments: Someren, [13];
Yale University, [16];
Chittenden, [18];
U. S. Army, [19];
Irving Fisher's, [98];
Seventh-Day Adventists, [151]
F
Fasting, the value of, [170]
Fat, putting on, [70];
Doctor Anderson on, [137]
Fats in human diet, [61]
Fermentation of undigested food, [47]
Fisher, Professor Irving, endurance tests, [21];
his endurance-testing-machine, [26];
experiments with students, [98]
Fletcher, Horace, refused by insurance company as poor risk, [2];
at Galveston, Texas, [3];
discovery of the mouth food-filter, [6];
in the Philippines, [112];
delivers address before New York Academy of Medicine, [128];
at the Buffalo Club, [147]
Fletcherism, its five principles, [10];
and housewives, [41];
economy of, [43];
and long life, [49], [118];
and muscularity, [111];
and companionship, [123];
as first aid, [155]
Fletcherite, the dictionary definition, [116]
Food-filter, our, what it is, [6];
using it properly, [35], [66]
Foster, Sir Michael, interested in Fletcherism, [13];
organises tests at Cambridge University, [13]
Fruit, how to eat, [59]
G
Gladstone, his theory of mastication, [4], [67];
as Fletcherite, [7]
Gluttony and avoirdupois, [161]
Granger, J. H., [21]
Grape-sugar, [69]
H
Head digestion, [73] et seq.
Higgins, Father, on alcoholic stimulants, [44]
Hindhede, Doctor, [102], [187], [191]
Hopkins, Professor F. G., conducts tests at Cambridge University, [15]
Hospitality, aggressive, [118]
Housewives and Fletcherism, [41]
Human diet, the organic materials of, [60]
Hunger, what is, [51]
Hunger-habit, [40]
Hutchinson, Doctor, [73]
I
Intemperance, overcome by Fletcherism, [45], [141], [153]
Intestinal toxication, [42]
J
Japan, [2], [94]
Java, diet in, [95]
K
Kellog, Doctor, [45];
test at Tennessee Institute, [151]
König, Professor, [110]
L
Leonardi, Professor, in co-operation with Doctor Van Someren, [13]
Liquids, Fletcherising, [120]
M
Mastication, what happens during, [7];
Fletcherism not excessive, [64]
Meals, choosing, [32];
how many a day, [37];
chosen by appetite, [54]
Meat and Uric Acid, [187]
Mendel, Professor, [18]
Milk, as food material, [32], [102];
how to take, [60], [121]
Mineral waters, [121]
Morbid cravings, [150]
Mouth digestion, [73], [76]
Mouth during mastication, [7]
Muscularity and Fletcherism, [111]
N
National Food Reform Association, [64]
Nitrogen, [61]
Nutrition, the best safeguard to right, [48]
O
Optimum economic nutrition, [63], [107]
Organic materials of human diet, the, [60]
P
Pawlow, Professor, [57], [74], [125]
Peristalsis and fruit, [59]
Potato, the, nutritive value of, [103]
Proteids, the, [60]
Protein enthusiast, the, [108];
the danger of excess of, [181]
R
Responsibility in nutrition, our personal, [5], [80], [96]
Rockefeller, J. D., xi, [190], [193] et seq.
Roosevelt, President, [19]
Root, Secretary, [19]
S
Saliva, chemical transformation of food by, [8];
wait for profuse flow, [52], [62];
action on starch foods, [68]
Scott, Captain, [108]
Seventh-Day Adventists, [151]
Someren, Doctor Van, first experiments with, [13]
Soup, how to take, [60]
Stagg, Alonzo B., [21]
Starch foods, action of saliva, [68]
Stomach, digestive processes in, [74]
Swallowing impulse, [9], [57]
Swallowing sense, [140]
T
Taste, getting the best out of food, [10];
the test of, [91];
and liquids, [121]
Taste-buds, the, [7]
Tea, how to take it, [59]
Temperance and Fletcherism, [138], [149]
Tests. See Experiments and Endurance tests.
Tramps and Fletcherism, [138]
U
Uric Acid and Meat, [187]
U. S. Army, instructions to, [57]
V
Vegetarianism and Fletcherism, [180]
Voit, Carl, his diet standard, [109]
W
Wagner, Doctor, [22]
Wine, how to take, [60]
Wine-tasters, professional, [147]
Wood, General, [19]
Wright Brothers, the, [124]
Y
Yale University, experiments at, [15]
Y. M. C. A. Training School, Springfield, test at, [29]
Z
Zuntz, Doctor Professor, [78]
FOOTNOTES:
[A] Note:—Some of these same friends, fifteen years later, when I was sixty-four years of age, as positively declared: "You never looked so well: Fletcherizing has certainly done well for Fletcher!"
[B] Professor W. A. Atwater, of Connecticut, U.S.A., was, in his time, a respected authority in the field of human nutrition, and, as such, was selected by the editors of the Encyclopædia Britannica to write the chapters on Nutrition for the Encyclopædia.
[C] Dr. Van Someren's testimony is given as an Appendix to this volume; taken from The A.B.—Z. of Our Own Nutrition.
[D] Now Chief of Staff.
[E] The full report of this famous experiment may be found in Professor Chittenden's book Physiological Economy in Nutrition; but such small mention of indebtedness to Fletcherism was made, that Professor Irving Fisher, in the interest of practical Political Economy, organised a supplemental experiment, more normal than the first, to test the economic effects of Fletcherism, pure and simple.
A brief account of this investigation is given on page 98.
Professor Chittenden made amends, later on, by composing a physiological prose poem on the benefits and delights resulting from careful chewing and tasting of nutriment, which I quote in full in Chapter VII.
[F] Detailed account of this test is given in The New Glutton or Epicure, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company.