Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE A. B.-Z.

OF

OUR OWN NUTRITION

HORACE FLETCHER’S WORKS

THE A. B.-Z. OF OUR OWN NUTRITION. 462 pp. Just issued.

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

THE NEW GLUTTON OR EPICURE; OR, ECONOMIC NUTRITION. 324 pp. Just issued.

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

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

_The_ A. B.-Z.
_of_ OUR OWN
NUTRITION

_By_ HORACE FLETCHER
_Author of “Menticulture,” “Happiness,” “That
Last Waif,” “Glutton or Epicure,” Etc., Etc._

EXPERIMENTALLY ASSISTED BY
DR. ERNEST VAN SOMEREN,
M. R. C. S., L. R. C. P., _of Venice, Italy_
& DR. HUBERT HIGGINS, M.A.,
M. R. C. S., L. R. C. P., _of Cambridge, England_

_NEW YORK_ ‧ FREDERICK A.
STOKES COMPANY ‧ _PUBLISHERS_

COPYRIGHT, 1903
BY HORACE FLETCHER

Published November, 1903
Reprinted February, 1904, August, 1904
February, 1905, August, 1905

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE U. S. A.

CONTENTS

Page
INTRODUCTION ix

POSTINTRODUCTORY xxvii

THE A.B.-Z. PRIMER

Explanation 3

Some Pertinent Questions 4

A.—The Psychology of Nutrition 6

B.—The Mechanical and Chemical Physiology of
Nutrition 8

Method 9

Z.— The True Chemical End-Point of Digestion 10

A.B.-Z. Figure 12

Preface to 1906 Edition 13

HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORTING
EVIDENCE

Summary of the Foregoing Pages by an Experimenter
of One Month’s Experience 19

First Scientific Recognition of the Principles of
Economic Nutrition Outlined in “Glutton or Epicure.” H.F. 26

Was Luigi Cornaro Right? by Ernest Van Someren 27

The Cambridge Tests.H.F. 47

Experiments upon Human Nutrition, by Sir Michael
Foster, K.C.B., M.P., F.R.S. 48

Report of a Plan for the Institution of an International
Inquiry into the Subject of Human
Nutrition.H.F. 53

Proposal to Found an International Laboratory of
Research for the Study of Nutrition in all Its
Aspects. Recommended by the following 55
Professors of Physiology, etc.:

Sir Michael Foster, Cambridge, England.
Angelo Mosso, Turin, Italy.
Hugo Kronecker, Bern, Switzerland.
N. Zuntz, Berlin, Germany.
Paul Heger, Brussels, Belgium.
A. Dastre, Paris, France.
Henry P. Bowditch, Harvard Medical School.
Russell H. Chittenden, Yale University.
William H. Welch, Johns Hopkins University.
J.P. Pawlow, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Nationality and Scientific Titles of the above Board
of Scientific Assessors 68

Persistent Scientific Doubts.H.F. 69

Physiological Economy in Nutrition, by Professor
Russell H. Chittenden 72

Introduction to Dr. Harry Campbell’s Contribution
on the Importance of Mastication.H.F. 92

Observations on Mastication, by Harry Campbell,
M.D., F.R.C.P. 96

Introduction to Professor Pawlow’s Demonstrations
of Psychic Influence in Digestion.H.F. 180

Selected Lectures by Professor J.P. Pawlow (Dr.
W.H. Thompson’s translation) 182

Lecture IV.: General Scheme of an Innervation
Mechanism--The Work of the Nervous Apparatus
of the Salivary Glands--Appetite, the First
and Most Potent Exciter of the Gastric Secretion 182

Lecture V.: Period of Occurrence and Importance
of the Psychic or Appetite Juice in the Secretory
Work of the Stomach--The Inefficiency of
Mechanical Stimulation of the Nervous Apparatus
of the Gastric Glands 212

Lecture VIII.: Physiological Action and the Teaching
of Instinct: Experiences of the Physician 247

Introduction to Dr. Cannon’s Papers on Movements
in the Alimentary Canal studied by Means
of the Röntgen Rays.H.F. 284

Swallowing and Movements of the Stomach and
Intestines, by W.B. Cannon, M.D. 285

The Movements of the Food in the Œsophagus,
by W.B. Cannon and A. Moser 285

The Movements of the Stomach, by W.B. Cannon 301

The Movements of the Intestines, by W.B. Cannon 342

The Battle Creek Laboratories.H.F. 389

Experimental Investigation of the Influence of
Mastication and Cooking of Food, etc., in the
Laboratories of the Battle Creek, Michigan, Sanitarium,
under the direction of Dr.J.H. Kellogg 391

Dr. Edward Hooker Dewey and the “No Breakfast
Plan.” H.F. 396

Professor Jaffa and the Fruitarians.H.F. 397

Dr.H.P. Armsby.H.F. 397

Explanation of the A.B.C. Series.H.F. 399

INDEX 409