msToKV oi Tin: r>i-: of cocoa. , 



prcxluct of our l.md " (wli.it a tlcliciuus bit for the I'rotcclionists of 

 our il.iy). "There is so vitst .i quantity of brandy, rum, coffee, lc;i 

 and Sp.mish Chocolate every year iniportetl into ICngland, that there 

 is expended by the subjects yearly in these drinks alx)ve /^400,ooo. 

 In short, brandy burns th«! hearts of His Majesty's subjects, and 

 for coffee, tea and chocolate, I know no good they do." 



As early as 1624, Joan IVan Rauch wrote a treatise 

 condemnatory of the u se of Coc oa as avi ^ e p^ inllamer^of 

 s ^^and enl arged on the necessity of forbidd i i nr the monks 

 to diiak It ; and adds, "that if such an niterdiction had existed 

 that scandal with which that iioly order had been branded might 

 li.i\c i»r()\('il groun(ll<'ss." 



■ i nis ' Dispulalio medico cli^Ltetita dc acre i.l r^culenlis, 

 de necnon j)olu,' Vienna 1624, is i\ ram aiis among collectors. 

 Its attack on the monks, as well as on Chocolate, Wiis said to 

 be the cause of its scarcity."* 



We have a curious collection ot the opinions of theol«>gians 

 upon the question of "Fasting from Chocolate in Lent," in a volume 

 published in Italian by Daniel Concuna, Venice, 174S. He says : 

 "Among the first Probabitist Theologi.ms who undertook to 

 write entire Treatises, and to collect all the possible reasons 

 as to whether the Indian beverage (Chocolate) could agree with 

 European fasting, was l^'ather Tommiuso Hurtado. He employed 

 the whole of the tenth Treatise of the 2nd Volume of the 

 •Moral Resolutions,' printed in 1651. uul added thereto an 

 appendix of more chapters. 



* D'Israeli's " Curiosities of Literature." 



