Fletcherism

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. A dietary system prescribing the repeated chewing of food until all taste is lost, and in abstention from food until very hungry. historical,uncountable
    — Once upon a time, there was a man named Thomas Edison, and he invented the dictating machine and the fluoroscope...and the repeating telegraph. And he was a firm believer in Fletcherism...and he played the organ and his favorite flower was the heliotrope.

词源

From Fletcher + -ism, after Horace Fletcher (1849–1919), American health-food enthusiast of the Victorian era.
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