38 COCOA A.Yf) CHOCOLATE. 



"This is not true of chocolate, which is at the same time complete 

 food and an active excitant, since it approaches in composition that 

 model food, milk. In fact we have seen that in cocoa there is legu- 

 mine and albumen, associated with fat, sugar to sustain respiratory 

 combustion, phosphates, which are the basis of the bones, and what 

 milk does not have theobromine and a delicate aroma. Roasted, 



WRAPPING ROOM, BAKER'S CHOCOLATE. 



ground, and mixed with sugar, cocoa becomes chocolate, the nutritive 

 properties of which astonished the Spanish soldiers that invaded 

 Mexico." 



Dr. Edmund A. Parkes, F.R.S., in his Manual of Practical Hv- 

 giene, prepared especially for use in the Medical Service of the Army " 

 (London, 1864), says : 



