The Indian nectar, or, A discourse concerning chocolata
Subtitle: 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 ... : 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 ...
By: by Henry Stubbe ...
Publisher: Printed by J.C. for Andrew Crook ...
Published: 1662
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Cacao; Chocolate
Other titles: Discourse concerning chocolata
Notes: References: Wing S6049; Mueller, W. Bibliographie des Kaffe, p. 199.

Includes: The judgment of Roblez a licentiate physician in Peru concerning cacao, and chocolata (p. 169-174); An account of the distillation of the cacao-nut perform'd by Mr. Le Febure (p. 175-181).

ESTC R32737

Mueller, W. Bibl. des Kaffee, des Kakao der Schokolade, des Tee, p. 199

Wing S6049