VALUE AS FOOD. 59 



advantages -which every one may verify 

 among his own friends, and wherever the 

 practice is in use. 



" This is the place to speak of the prop- 

 erties of chocolate with amber, properties 

 which I have proved with many experi- 

 ments, and the results of which I am 

 proud to offer to my readers. 



" Let every man, then, who has drunk 

 too deep of the cup of pleasure ; every man 

 who has spent in work the time which 

 should be devoted to sleep ; every man of 

 wit who feels himself temporarily growing 

 stupid ; every man who finds the air 

 damp, the time long, and the atmosphere 

 difficult to endure ; every man who is tor- 

 mented with a fixed idea which takes 

 away from him the liberty of thought, let 

 all these, I say, administer to themselves 

 a good half-litre of amber chocolate, in the 

 proportion of sixty or seventy grains of 

 amber to the pound, and they will see 

 wonders. 



