The Indian nectar, or, A discourse concerning chocolata the nature of cacao-nut and the other ingredients of that composition is examined and stated according to the judgment and experience of the Indian and Spanish writers ... its effects as to its alimental and venereal quality as well as medicinal (especially in hypochondrial melancholy) are fully debated : together with a spagyrical analysis of the cacao-nut, performed by that excellent chymist Monsieur le Febure, chymist to His Majesty / by Henry Stubbe ... ; Thomas Gage, Survey of the West-Indies. chap. 15 ...

Title

The Indian nectar, or, A discourse concerning chocolata the nature of cacao-nut and the other ingredients of that composition is examined and stated according to the judgment and experience of the Indian and Spanish writers ... its effects as to its alimental and venereal quality as well as medicinal (especially in hypochondrial melancholy) are fully debated : together with a spagyrical analysis of the cacao-nut, performed by that excellent chymist Monsieur le Febure, chymist to His Majesty / by Henry Stubbe ... ; Thomas Gage, Survey of the West-Indies. chap. 15 ...

Author

Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.

Publication

London :: Printed by J.C. fdor Andrew Crook ...,

1662.

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Subject terms

Chocolate -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• To my Learned Friend Dr. Tho∣mas Willis Doctor of Physick, and Reader of Natural Philo∣sophy in the University of Oxon.
• The Preface to the Ingenuous READER.
• CHAP. I.
• CHAP. II.
• CHAP. III.
• CHAP. IV.
• CHAP. V.
• CHAP. VI.
• CHAP. VI.
• The Judgment of Roblez a Licen∣tiate Physician in Peru concern∣ing Cacao, and Chocolata.
  • That is in English as follows.
• An account of the Distillation of the Cacao-nut perform'd by Mr. Le Febure.
• The Judgment of St. Austin in his Book Of the City of God: which was too large to be inserted before, pag. 136.