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
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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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    [rr] “place above-mentioned, AndI obferve, that ‘) Hernandez , though in the making up of WChocolat?, where he {peaks of the compofiti- “iW on of it,( which is to be fuppofed the ordina- “a ry one, becaufeabfolutely and indefinicel y jmentioned there ) he add no more Ingre- }dients, then I have already mentioned, | yetin other places he cells us that for weak, ¢>,.4,.1 9 “ay? phlegmatique, and windy ftomachs, they ~ _ nine ‘nie @dded Xochinacaztli, or your ¢ Orachelas : 8 Gage calls cil, af fo they added T/j/xochit/, or theb Vaynillas Siete: uae st } . J isivseeC.17o “} for the like ends,and co ftrengthen the brain, jand womb. Togiveit an adfringency, and j to ftrengthen a ftomach debilicated, and hd prone to a flux, or diarrhea, they added Nit) t Achrotl, Or Achiote. So, in cafe of cold/1d.1 3. c.41, if Stomachs, and Phlegmatique Obftrudtions, He) they added Mecaxochitl ; which Anton. de K1415.¢.13. | Ledefma and Gage call Mecafuchill : and n,) Paulus Lacchias, Mecacuce. And, in cafe of Coughs,they added Tepeyantli. But, befides! 4 15. ¢-41- thefe drinks, confeffedly owned by Hernan- | dex under the name of Chocolata, there is died) another, which however itbe not reckoned wii] asafort of Chocelati, bue diftin& from it, \pl| yet was it madeof Cacao nurs, and feemsto i) have beena leading drink to the Chocolata el) NOwinufe: andit is called by Heruzandez | the ™ compounded Atatexi. The fimple po- m1d13.c.46¢ i tion of Atatexli is made of one hundred Cea:- ,), €ao nuts, crude, or prepared, and bearen i), well, and fo mixed with as much prepared sit!) Maiz, escan be taken up betwixt both hands