The Indian Nectar, or, A discourse concerning Chocolata : Wherein the Nature of the Cacao-nut, and the other Ingredients of that Composition, is examined, and stated according to the Judgment and Experience of the Indians, and Spanish writers, who lived in the Indies, and others; with sundry additional Observations made in England: The ways of compounding and preparing Chocolata are enquired into; its Effects, as to its alimental and Venereal quality, as well as Medicinal (especially in Hypochondriacal 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.

Henry Stubbe

Date:: 1662

Credit: The Indian Nectar, or, A discourse concerning Chocolata : Wherein the Nature of the Cacao-nut, and the other Ingredients of that Composition, is examined, and stated according to the Judgment and Experience of the Indians, and Spanish writers, who lived in the Indies, and others; with sundry additional Observations made in England: The ways of compounding and preparing Chocolata are enquired into; its Effects, as to its alimental and Venereal quality, as well as Medicinal (especially in Hypochondriacal 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$| [3] Ji, $¢ 18 fo generally ufed in the Spanifh Colonies \\,,, P£the Vest- Indies, by the Natives, and other Enhabicants; chat it alone makes up both bbe neceffary provifion for their fustenances, and cheir delicacies for extraordinary euter~ uns § 22#ments for pleafure, This is confirmed ‘ily PY the general vogue of the Indian writers? “tnd whofoever fhall haveread Mr. Gage will ho longer doubr it,when he thall find, befides . the particular Chapter,in which he delignesa yWPecial account of it,( moft of which is tran- “/iribed out of Anton. Colmenero de Ledefma J (pow at fundry times he was treated theres .. with by way of a magnificent collation: and, ‘,,peing to travail, he makes a ftore of Choco- |, atte to be as important a care, as any fora purney, In Spazn it is drunk all Summer, “gnce, er twice a day; or, indeed at any ime, by way of encertainment: fer howes “ter Phyficians there endeavour to confine the copie co Rules, yee is ic generally drunk >» Fichout regard to any: and ic is there,as well “ pin the Indies, all che year long. Ic is “punk,by the allowance of che Phyficiansyonce, ) | ir twice each day ; and by the prevalence of *Muffome, as often as there is occafion for en= \irtainment, or that one is tyred through ?-Uifinefs, and wants {peedy refrefoment, ‘Where is a controverfy about the conveni- Ace of taking it in Summer 5 fince Anton, I b /menero difallows it beyond May. But » ders, as learned and obferving as he, per ie ic all che year: and for Experience ‘ B 2 (which$

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