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 America[1] and England,[2] and
his results have been accepted in scientific circles the world over as
authoritatively conclusive.
[Footnote 1: Physiological Economy in Nutrition: The Frederick A.
Stokes Company, New York.]
[Footnote 2: William Heinemann: London.]
At the present writing the most important Health Boards of Europe[3]
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.
[Footnote 3: The author is not yet permitted to publish the particulars
of these reforms in process, but he has official information regarding
them and is in full sympathy with them.]
At a missionary agricultural college, situated near Nashville, Tenn.,
where the students earn their tuition and their board while pursuing
their studies, a six months' test of what is termed "Fletcherism"
resulted in a saving of about one half of the drafts on the commissary,
immunity from illness, increased energy, strength and endurance, and
general adoption of the suggestions published in the several books of
the author included in the _A. B. C. Life Series_.
In the various departments and branches of the Battle Creek Sanitarium
in America, and widely scattered over the world, some eight hundred
employees and thousands of patients have been accumulating evidence of
the efficacy of "Fletcherism" for more than three years, and scarce a
month passes without a letter from Dr. Kellogg to the author containing
new testimony confirming the _A. B. C._ selections and suggestions.
The author has received within the past two years more than a thousand
letters bearing the approval of the writers with report of benefits
received which seem almost miraculous, and these include the leaders in
many branches of human occupation--physiologists, surgeons, medical
practitioners, artists, business men, literary workers, athletes,
working men and women, and almost every degree of mental and physical
activity.
One of the medical advisers of King Edward, of whom the King once said:
"He is a splendid doctor but a poor courtier," follows the suggestions
of these books in prescribing to his sumptuous clients.