Concerning the first Point, I say, that _Chocolate_ is a name of the _Indians_; which in our vulgar Castilian, we may call a certaine _Confection_, in which (among the Ingredients) the principall _Basis_, and Foundation, is the _Cacao_; of whose Nature and Quality it is necessary first to treat: And therefore I say, according to the common received opinion, that it is cold, and dry, _a praedominio_; that is to say, that though it be true, that every Simple containes in it the Qualities of the foure Elements, in the action, and re-action, which it hath in it, yet there results another distinct quality, which we call Complexion. This Quality or Complexion, which ariseth of this Mixture, is not alwayes one, and the same; neither hath it the effect in all the mixtures, but they may be varied nine wayes; four _Simple_, from whence one onely quality doth abound; and foure _Compounded_, from whence two Symbolizing qualities are predominant; and one other, which we call _ad pondus_, which is of all these fore-said qualities, which are in _aequilibrio_, that is to say, in equall measure and degree. Of all these the Complexion of _Cacao_ is composed, since there arise two qualities, which are cold, and dry; and in the substance, that rules them, hath it _restringent_ and _obstructive_, of the nature of the Element of the _Earth_. And then, as it is a Mixed, and not a simple Element, it must needs have parts correspondent to the rest of the Elements; and particularly, it partakees (and that, not a little) of those, which correspond with the Element of Aire, that is, Heat and Moysture, which are governed by the Unctious parts; there being drawne out of the _Cacao_ much Butter, which, in the _Indies_ I have seene drawne out if it, for the Face, by the _Criollas_. It may Philosophically be objected, in this manner: _Two contrary Qualities, and Disagreeing, cannot be _in gradu intenso_, in one and the same Subject: _Cacao_ is cold and drie, in predominency: Therefore, it cannot have the qualities contrary to those; which are Heat, and Moysture. The first Proposition is most certaine, and grounded upon good Philosophy: The second is consented unto, by all: The third, which is the Conclusion, is regular._ It cannot be denyed, but that the _Argument_ is very strong, and these reasons being considered by him of _Marchena_, have made him affirme, that _Chocolate_ is Obstructive; it seeming to be contrary to Philosophy, that in it there should be found _Heat_ and _Moysture_, _in gradu intenso_; and to be so likewise in _Cold_ and _Dry_.