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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 DiseaseColmenero de Ledesma, Antonio

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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

Name: 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
Author: Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio

Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio

Chocolate -- Early works to 1800

_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 in women, hastens and facilitates
their Delivery: It is an excellent help to Digestion, it cures
Consumptions, and the Cough of the Lungs, the New Disease, or Plague
of the Guts, and other Fluxes, the Green Sicknesse, Jaundise, and all
manner of Inflamations, Opilations, and Obstructions. It quite takes
away the Morphew, Cleanseth the Teeth, and sweetneth the Breath,
Provokes Urine, Cures the Stone, and strangury, Expells Poison, and
preserves from all infectious Diseases._

_But I shall not assume to enumerate all the vertues of this
Confection: for that were Impossible, every day producing New and
Admirable effects in such as drinke it: I shall rather referre to the
Testimony of those Noble Personages who are known constantly to use
and receive constant and manifold benefits by it, having hereby no
other Aime then the Generall good of this Common-wealth (whereof I am
a Faithfull Member) and to be esteemed (as really I am)_

                              _Gentlemen_,

     Westminster                      Your Affectionate Friend
     _Decemb._ 20.                    to love and serve you,
     1651.
                                      _Don Diego de Vadesforte._




                          _THE TRANSLATOR_,
                      To every Individuall Man,
                  and Woman, Learn'd, or unlearn'd,
                     Honest, or Dishonest: In the
                         due Praise of Divine
                             _CHOCOLATE_.


  _Doctors_ lay by your _Irksome Books_
  And all ye Petty-Fogging _Rookes_
  Leave _Quacking_; and _Enucleate_
  The _vertues_ of our _Chocolate_.

  Let th' _Universall Medicine_
  (Made up of Dead-mens _Bones_ and _Skin_,)
  Be henceforth _Illegitimate_,
  And yeild to _Soveraigne-Chocolate_.

  Let _Bawdy-Baths_ be us'd no more;
  Nor _Smoaky-Stoves_ but by the whore
  Of _Babilon_: since _Happy-Fate_
  Hath _Blessed_ us with _Chocolate_.

  Let old _Punctaeus_ Greaze his _shooes_
  With his _Mock-Balsome_: and Abuse
  No more the World: But _Meditate_
  The _Excellence_ of _Chocolate_.

  Let _Doctor Trigg_ (who so Excells)
  No longer Trudge to _Westwood-Wells_:
  For though that water _Expurgate_,
  'Tis but the _Dreggs_ of _Chocolate_.

  Let all the _Paracelsian_ Crew
  Who can Extract _Christian_ from _Jew_;
  Or out of _Monarchy_, A _State_,
  Breake `all their _Stills_ for _Chocolate_.

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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

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