CHOCOLATE:
OR,
An Indian Drinke.
By the wise and Moderate use whereof,
Health is preserved, Sicknesse
Diverted, and Cured, especially the
Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called
The New Disease; Fluxes, Consumptions,
& Coughs of the Lungs, with sundry
other desperate Diseases. By it
also, Conception is Caused,
the Birth Hastened and
facilitated, Beauty
Gain’d and continued.
Written Originally in Spanish, by Antonio Colmenero
of Ledesma, Doctor in Physicke,
and faithfully rendred in the English,
By Capt. James Wadsworth.
LONDON,
Printed by J. G. for Iohn Dakins, dwelling
neare the Vine Taverne in Holborne,
where this Tract, together with the
Chocolate it selfe, may be had at
reasonable rates. 1652
TO The Gentry OF
The English Nation.
To every Individual Man, and Woman, Learn’d, or unlearn’d, Honest, or Dishonest:
In the due Praise of Divine CHOCOLATE.
The Allowance of
Melchor De Lara, Physitian Generall for the
Kingdome of Spaine.
The Testimoniall of
John de Mena, Doctor and Physitian to
the King of Spaine.
To the Reader.
The first Point.
The second Point.
The third Point.
The fourth Part.
How to make use of the Chocolate
The manner of making Chocolate. |