76 COCOA : ALL ABOUT IT. 



Mr. Faussett, M.B., F.R.C.S. I., in a paper read before the 

 Surgical Society of Ireland, May, 1877, draws the attention of 

 the Faculty to this subject, in connection with the feeding of 

 infants : — 



" Without presuming to pass any judgment on the many 

 artificial substitutes which on alleged chemical and scientific 

 principles have from time to time been pressed forward under the 

 notice of the Profession and the public to take the place of mother's 

 milk, I beg to call attention to a very cheap and simple article 

 which is always easily procurable — viz., Cocoa, and which, when 

 pure and deprived of an excess of fatty matter, may safely be relied 

 on, as Cocoa in the natural state abounds in a number of valuable 

 nutritious principles ; in fact, in every material necessary for the 

 growth, the development, and sustenance of the body." After 

 giving some remarkable cases of children being restored from " the 

 last stage of extreme exhaustion'' by its use, and "continued 

 through the whole period of infancy" with the effect of their 

 becoming fine, healthy children, he concludes by saying : — " I beg, 

 therefore, respectfully to commend Cocoa, as an article of infant's 

 food, to the notice of my professional brethren, especially those 

 who, holding office under the Poor-laws, have such large and 

 extensive opportunities of testing its value. That it is as 

 nutritious for old as well as young we have an interesting proof 

 in the fact that "the first Englishman born in Jamaica, Colonel 

 Montague Jamss, who lived to the age of 104, took scarcely any 

 food but Cocoa or Chocolate for the last 30 years of his life." 



For athletes, and all who study the development of the 

 muscular tissues of the body, its use is most beneficial. Professor 



