Before revision: Although Edgerly claimed in the 1900 edition of The Book of General Membership of the RalstonHealth Club that the letters for the word RALSTON came from Regime, Activity, Light, Strength, Temperation, Oxygen and Nature, earlier editions of the same book are credited to Everett Ralston, a pseudonym of Edgerly, with the implication that Ralstonism is named after this fictitious person.
After revision: Edgerly at first published his ideas under the pseudonym Everett Ralston, but later used his own name and explained "Ralston" as an acronym for " Regime, Activity, Light, Strength, Temperation, Oxygen