The Indian nectar, or A discourse concerning chocolata
Subtitle: wherein the nature of 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: By Henry Stubbe formerly of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. physician for His Majesty, and the right honourable Thomas Lord Windsor in the island of Jamaica in the West-Indies
Contributors: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430; Plymouth, Thomas Windsor Windsor, Earl of, 1627?-1687; Le Fèvre, Nicaise, 1610-1669; Robles Cornejo, Antonio de
Publisher: printed by J[ames]. C[ottrell]. for Andrew Crook at the sign of the Green Dragon in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Published: 1662
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Chocolate; Therapeutic use; Cacao
Other titles: Indian nectar.; Discourse concerning chocolata.; Discourse concerning chocolate.
Notes: Name of printer from Wing CD.

The words "especially in hypochondriacal melancholy" in title are printed within parentheses.

"The judgment of Roblez, a licentiate physician in Peru concerning cacao, and chocolata", p. 169-171, is printed in Spanish, and followed on p. 171-174 by the English translation.

"An account of the distillation of the cacao-nut perform'd by Mr. le Febure": p. 175-181.

"The judgment of St. Austin in his book Of the city of God: which was too large to be inserted before, p. 136": p. 181-184.

Signatures: A-M⁸ (A1, A8 versos blank) N⁴

Woodcut head pieces; initial.

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S6049.

Cundall, F. Jamaica, 414.

Waring, E.J. Bib. therapeutica, 730.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island III:84.

European Americana 662/132.

English short title catalogue R32737.