The natural history of chocolate : being a distinct and particular account of the cocoa-tree, its growth and culture, and the preparation, excellent properties, and medicinal vertues of its fruit. Wherein the errors of those who have wrote upon this subject are discover'd; the best way of making chocolate is explain'd; and several uncommon medicines drawn from it, are communicated / [D. Quélus] ; Translated from the last edition of the French, by R. Brookes.

  • Quélus, D.
Date:
1775
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Credit: The natural history of chocolate : being a distinct and particular account of the cocoa-tree, its growth and culture, and the preparation, excellent properties, and medicinal vertues of its fruit. Wherein the errors of those who have wrote upon this subject are discover'd; the best way of making chocolate is explain'd; and several uncommon medicines drawn from it, are communicated / [D. Quélus] ; Translated from the last edition of the French, by R. Brookes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As for my Reafonings upon the Na¬ ture, Vermes, and ÎJfes of Chocolate, perhaps they may be fufpeÛed by form “People, becaufe they relate to an Art \which I do not profefs ; but let that be as it will, the Falls upon which they are founded arc certain, and every one is at liberty to make what other Inferences they like heft. As there are federal Names of Plants, and Perms of Art ufed in thofe Countries, which I have been obliged to make ufe of, and which it was jtccejfary to explain fomewbat at large, that they might be rightly under food ; rather than make frequent PHgreffions, and interrupt the jDifcourfe, I have thought fit to number thefe Perms, and to explain them at the lind of this Preatife : the Reader mufi therefore look forward for thofe Remarks under their particular Numbers. THE