Fletcherite
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See also: fletcherite
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Fletcher + -ite, named after Horace Fletcher.
Noun[edit]
Fletcherite (plural Fletcherites)
- A practitioner of Horace Fletcher's theories, especially regarding the extremely thorough chewing of food.
- 1907, Caleb Williams Saleeby, The Conquest of Cancer[1], F. A. Stokes Company, page 72:
- Now I submit that the Fletcherite bowel, which at its fullest is practically empty, and at its most septic is practically microbe-free, approximates so nearly to the condition of the foetal bowel, that if the absorption of undestroyed trypsin is credible in the one case it is credible in the other.
- 1913 September, T. N. Buckingham, “Bob White, Down 't Aberdeen”, in Field and Stream[2], volume 18, number 5, page 458:
- Their contents would have made the weariest Fletcherite drool at the mouth and forget his number of chews.
- 1957, Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science[3], Dover, page 221:
- The motto of the Fletcherites was “Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.”
- 2012, Shailaja Prashant Kedari, The Simple and Natural Way: ... to Perfect Weight, Radiant Health and Transformed Life[4], Balboa Press, page 51:
- It is fascinating to read that any waste generated out of a Fletcherites body will have no offensive odor, be it the digestion ash (excreta), urine or sweat.