HISTORY OK TIIK USE OF COCOA. 3 1 



novels. .iikI ilu' likt: inll.imcrs, which I Untk upon as Nx-ry 

 dangerous to Ik- mluIc use of during lliis great carnival (the 

 month of May). 



Dr. Dunc.ui. of ihe I-'aculty of M()iU[K.lier, Lonilon, six years 

 earlier (1706). said : " Coffee, Chocolate and Tea were at the first 

 used only as medicines while they continued unpleasant, but since 

 they were made delicious with sui;ar. they are become poison. 

 * * *■ If j)Kasure did not deserve it as a passport, that would 

 be stopp'd at the gate of lh<- I louse where lh(! .Soul dwells." 



Almost contemporary with Rauch's treatise, was a book written 

 by Anloino Colmenero tie Ledesma. Medicin ami Chirurgien. de 

 la \ille de Hcija, de rAiulalouzie. 1631; which was translated 

 from the Spanish into I'rench by Rene Moreau, in 167 1; into 

 Latin by Marco Aurelio Severino, in 1644; and put into I-.nglish 

 by Don Dieij^ode \'ades-forte. London, 1640. 



Willem Hcjntekoe, a Dutch author and traveller, wrote sundry 

 short treatises on Cocoa and Chocolate about 1679. De Chclus. 

 I 7 10. wrote a " Ilistoire Xaturelle du Cacoa et de Sucre." 



Another l* rench work. " On the Quality and Nature of 

 Chocolate," by rhilijipe Sylvestre Dufour, in 168S. from which 

 we copy some of the very interesting engravings, is translated 

 into I*'nglish from the last edition of the French, by R. Brookes, 

 M.D.. .'730. 



Larly travellers to the newly di.scovered world have left us 

 a fund of curious and interesting information respecting the use of 

 Cocoa among the native races. 



