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COCOA AND CHOCOLA '/'/:. 



" Chocolate is not only proper to prolong the life of aged people, but 

 also of those whose constitution is lean and dry, or weak and caco- 

 chymical, or who use violent exercises, or whose employments oblige 

 them to an intense application of mind, which makes them very faintish. 

 To all these it agrees perfectly well, and becomes to them an altering 

 diet." 



Dr. Nansen, the famous Arctic explorer, in his book entitled " The 

 First Crossing of Greenland " (Vol. I., p. 58), speaks of chocolate as 

 an important part of the equipment for such an undertaking. "We 

 generally," he says, " used chocolate in the morning." Referring to 

 tea, coffee, and alcoholic drinks, he says: "Stimulants of this kind, 

 with the exception of chocolate, which is mild in its effect and at the 

 same time nourishing, bring practically no nutritive substance into the 

 body, and the energy which one obtains in anticipation by their use at 

 one moment must be paid for by a corresponding exhaustion at the 

 next." 



