"Fletcherite" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1907, Caleb Williams Saleeby, The Conquest of Cancer, F. A. Stokes Company, page 72",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1913 September, T. N. Buckingham, “Bob White, Down 't Aberdeen”, in Field and Stream, volume 18, number 5, page 458",
          "text": "Their contents would have made the weariest Fletcherite drool at the mouth and forget his number of chews.",
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          "ref": "1957, Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Dover, page 221",
          "text": "The motto of the Fletcherites was “Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.”",
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          "ref": "2012, Shailaja Prashant Kedari, The Simple and Natural Way: ... to Perfect Weight, Radiant Health and Transformed Life, Balboa Press, page 51",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A practitioner of Horace Fletcher's theories, especially regarding the extremely thorough chewing of food."
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          "word": "Fletcherist"
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          "text": "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.",
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