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    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.
    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.
    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.
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    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.

    By Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma and James Wadsworth

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    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.

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      Chocolate - Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke, by

      Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: 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.

      Author: Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma

      Translator: James Wadsworth

      Release Date: May 2, 2007 [EBook #21271]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHOCOLATE: OR, AN INDIAN DRINKE ***

      Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Barbara Tozier and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      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.

      Sirs,

      The ensuing Tract, I, many yeares since Translated out of the Originall Spanish, and Dedicated to the Right Honorable Edward Lord Conway, &c. by whose Noble Patronage, the Confection whereof it Treats, together with it selfe, were first admitted into the English Court, where they received the Approbation of the most Noble and Iuditious those dayes afforded. Since which time, it hath beene universally sought for, and thirsted after by people of all Degrees (especially those of the Female sex) either for the Pleasure therein Naturally Residing, to Cure, and divert Diseases; Or else to supply some Defects of Nature, wherein it chalenges a speciall Prerogative above all other Medicines whatsoever.

      The Author thereof was one Antonio Colmenero of Ledesma, who sometimes lived in the West Indies, where it is very much used, and held in great esteeme, untill this day; as also in Spaine, Italy, and Flanders, and admired by the most learned Doctors of all those Nations.

      As for the Name [Chocolate] it is an Indian word, compounded of Ate (as some say,) or (as others) Atle, which in the Mexican Language, signifieth Water; And Choco, the noise that the Water (wherein the Chocolate is put) maketh, when it is stirred in a Cup, untill it Bubble and rise unto a Froth: And may be called in English A Compounded, or Confectioned drinke.

      The Confection it selfe, consists of severall Ingredients according to the different Constitutions of those that use it: the Principall of which is called Cacao, [a kind of Nut, or kernell, bigger then a great Almond, which growes upon a tree called the Tree of Cacao] containing in it the Quality of the Foure Elements, as will appeare in the following Discourse.

      The vertues thereof are no lesse various, then Admirable. For, besides that it preserves Health, and makes such as drink it often, Fat, and Corpulent, faire and Amiable, it vehemently Incites to Venus, and causeth Conception

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