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(theobroma cacao) exerts an influence upon the human system that is 

 equaled by no other vegetable product. Careful analysis, combined 

 with extensive clinical experience, has shown beyond shadow of doubt 

 that it retards retrograde metamorphosis of the body tissues (tissue 

 waste), is far more nutritious and less directly stimulating to the ner- 

 vous system than either tea or coffee, and when the excess of oil (oleum 



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theobroma) has been removed, exerts a distinctive beneficial influence 

 upon the digestive functions. Such being the case, the use of a 

 thoroughly reliable preparation of cocoa should be universally en- 

 couraged, and it is the consensus of opinion among medical men as 

 well as laboratory workers that the breakfast cocoa manufactured by 



