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COCOA AND CHOCOLATE 



Its usefulness is not, however, restricted. In many cases of deficient 

 nutrition, it may be well prescribed as a food-drink with every meal." 



The Maryland Medical Journal says : 



" Physicians have long recognized the valuable dietary properties of 

 cocoa. When obtained free from any admixture of foreign matter, its 



BRANCH HOl'SF, OF WALTER BAKER & CO., 38 AND 40 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO. 



nutritive value cannot be overestimated, combining as it does in proper 

 proportion the essentials of a perfect food carbohydrates, albumi- 

 noids, mineral matters, and the active principle, theobromine. The 

 physiological effects of cocoa in certain constitutional derangements 

 are well known to practitioners in general, and when no violence is 

 done to the chemical properties of the different components in the 

 process of preparation a product at once comforting and nutritious is 



