78 COCOA AND CHOCOLATE. 



" I had the second relation from a gen- 

 tleman of Martinico, and one of my 

 friends not capable of a falsity. 



" He assured me that in his neighborhood 

 an infant of four months old unfortunately 

 lost his nurse, and its parents, not being 

 able to put it to another, resolved, through 

 necessity to feed it with chocolate. The 

 success was very happy, for the infant 

 came on to a miracle, and was neither less 

 healthy nor less vigorous than those who 

 are brought up by the best nurses. 



" Before chocolate was known in Europe 

 good old wine was called the milk of old 

 men ; but this title is now applied with 

 greater reason to chocolate ; since its use 

 has become so common that it has been 

 perceived that chocolate is, with respect to 

 them, what milk is to infants. In reality, 

 if one examines the nature of chocolate a 

 little, with respect to the constitution of 

 aged persons, it seems as though the one 

 was made on purpose to remedy the de- 



