Chapter I: Front Matter

FLETCHERISM: WHAT IT IS

HORACE FLETCHER'S WORKS

THE A.B.-Z. OF OUR OWN NUTRITION. Thirty-fourth thousand. 462 pp.

THE NEW MENTICULTURE; OR, THE A-B-C OF TRUE LIVING. Fifty-third thousand. 310 pp.

THE NEW GLUTTON OR EPICURE; OR, ECONOMIC NUTRITION. Eighteenth thousand. 344 pp.

HAPPINESS AS FOUND IN FORETHOUGHT MINUS FEARTHOUGHT. Fifteenth thousand. 251 pp.

THAT LAST WAIF; OR, SOCIAL QUARANTINE. Sixth thousand. 270 pp.

FLETCHERISM: WHAT IT IS; OR, HOW I BECAME YOUNG AT SIXTY. 240 pp.

FLETCHERISM

WHAT IT IS

OR

HOW I BECAME YOUNG
AT SIXTY

BY

HORACE FLETCHER, A.M.

_Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science_

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

_September, 1913_

THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS
NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A

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

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Author _Frontispiece_

FACING
PAGE

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