44 COCOA AND CHOCOLATE 
disposed to admit that this substance contains a remarkable nutritive 
power. Besides, direct experience has proved this to be the case. In 
fact, cocoa, closely combined with an equal or two thirds’ weight of 
sugar, forming the article well-known under the name of chocolate, 
constitutes a food, substantial in all respects, and capable of sustain- 
ing the strength in traveling.”’ 
And a little farther on, he adds : — 
‘Cocoa and chocolate, in consequence of their elementary composi- 
tion, and of the direct or indirect addition of sugar before their com- 
WRAPPING SWEET CHOCOLATE 
sumption, constitute a food, respiratory, or capable of maintaining 
animal heat, by means of the starch, sugar, gum, and fatty matter 
which they contain; they are also articles of food favorable to the 
maintenance or development of the adipose secretions, by reason of 
the fatty matter (cocoa butter) belonging to them ; and, finally, they 
assist in the maintenance and increase of the tissues by means of their 
congeneric azote substances, which assimilate therewith.” 
Etienne Francois Geoffroy, the distinguished French physician and 
professor of medicine and pharmacy in the College of France, says, in 
his ‘' Zratte de Matiere Médicale»: — 
