72 COCOA AND CHOCOLATE. 



Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, the dis- 

 tinguished German physician, says : 



" I recommend good chocolate to ner- 

 vous, excitable persons ; also to the weak, 

 debilitated, and infirm ; to children and 

 women. I have obtained excellent results 

 from it in many cases of chronic diseases 

 of the digestive organs." 



Dr. Karl Ernest Bock, of Leipsic, 

 author of a " Traite de Pathologic et de 

 Diagnostic" says : 



44 The nervousness and peevishness of 

 our times are chiefly attributable to tea 

 and coffee ; the digestive organs of con- 

 firmed coffee-drinkers are in a state of 

 chronic derangement, which reacts upon 

 the brain, producing fretful and lachry- 

 mose moods. Cocoa and chocolate are 

 neutral in their physical effects, and are 

 really the most harmless of our fashionable 

 drinks." 



