The New Glutton or Epicure

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Fletcher Horace. The New Glutton or Epicure

PREFACE

PREFACE. TO 1906 EDITIONS

THE NEW GLUTTON OR EPICURE

THE PERSONAL "CASE" AND "ENDORSEMENT" of. DR. ERNEST VAN SOMEREN

EXPERIMENTS UPON HUMAN NUTRITION

EXTRACTS FROM DR. EDWARD HOOKER DEWEY

AN AGREEABLE ENDURANCE TEST

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS

OUR NATURAL GUARDIANS

OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED

THE MIND POWER-PLANT

TELL-TALE EXCRETA

SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATION OF A LITERARY TEST-SUBJECT

WHAT SENSE? TASTE12

PERSONAL CASE, INITIAL CONDITION

SOME PERTINENT QUERIES

IMPORTANT CONFIRMATION

CLARENCE F. LOW, ESQUIRE

A FIVE YEARS' LAY EXPERIENCE

DR. HIGGINS' CASE AND COMMENT

QUARANTINE

GIVE THE BABIES A CHANCE

MUNCHING PARTIES AND THE CHEWING FAD

SPECIMEN ECONOMIC DINNER

DIET IN THE YALE EXAMINATION OF THE AUTHOR

INFLUENCE OF SUGGESTION

"FLETCHERISING" FOOD

Explanation of The A. B. C. Life Series

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Since the former introductions were written much success has been attained in further advancing the reforms advocated in the A. B. C. Life Series. Professor Chittenden has published his report on the Yale experiments in book form in both America1 and England,2 and his results have been accepted in scientific circles the world over as authoritatively conclusive.

At the present writing the most important Health Boards of Europe3 are planning to put the new standards of dietary economy into practical use among public charges in a manner that can only result in benefit to the wards of the nations as well as make an important saving to the taxpayers. In the most important of these foreign public health departments the Health Officer of the Board has himself practised the newly established economy for two years, and his plans are formulated on personal experience which fully confirms Professor Chittenden's report and that of the author as herein related.

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"I have your kind note of November 20th. Thank you very much for your appreciative words. Your visit here was a great inspiration to all of us. It is not often we find a man who enters into the things which we love so heartily as you have done. The thing that interested us especially was the fact that you are the founder of a new and wonderful movement, which is bound to do far more for the advancement of the principles for which we are working than all that we have done or anything we can do. I shall await with great interest the development of your work and shall expect to receive great light from your efforts. We are all in training to find our reflexes, and are expecting to make a great deal out of this."

"My dear Friend:

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