Title
The Indian nectar, or A discourse concerning chocolata: : 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
Title Variants
Alternative:
Discourse concerning chocolata
Alternative:
Discourse concerning chocolate
Alternative:
Indian nectar
By
Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
, De civitate Dei
Plymouth, Thomas Windsor Windsor, Earl of, 1627?-1687
Le Fèvre, Nicaise, 1610-1669
Robles Cornejo, Antonio de.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
London, printed by J[ames]. C[ottrell]. for Andrew Crook at the sign of the Green Dragon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1662
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.
Subjects
Cacao
,
Chocolate
,
Imprint 1662
,
Therapeutic use
Language
English
Identifiers
OCLC:
308493575
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