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A36763	The manner of making of coffee, tea, and chocolate as it is used in most parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, with their vertues / newly done out of French and Spanish.; De l'usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate. English	Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre, 1622-1687.; Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio. Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate. English.; Chamberlayne, John, 1666-1723.	1685 (1685)	Wing D2455; ESTC R4072	38,381	122

THE Manner of Making OF COFFEE TEA AND CHOCOLATE As it is used In most parts of Europe Asia Africa and America With their Vertues Newly done out of French and Spanish LONDON Printed for William Crook at the Green Dragon without Temple Bar near Devereux Court 1685. TO THE Right Worshipful Sr. THOMAS CLAYTON Kt. WARDEN OF MERTON COLLEDGE IN OXFORD THIS TREATISE IS Humbly Dedicated BY THE RANSLATOR IOHN CHAMBERLAYN THE PREFACE NATVRE desiring that Man should go forth of her hands as a perfect Master-peice and as a Microcosm full of wonders has made him a present of a considerable apanage to wit a sound and vigorous health that he may live the longer and exercise all his functions with the less trouble But as this health may be easily alter'd and destroyed by an infinite number both of external and internal causes the Divine Providence knowing that nothing can be more profita●le more agreeable or more precious 〈◊〉 this her Creature than this incomparable benefit of health without which all the honours all the riches and all the delights of the world do perpetually incommode vex and t●rment a Man T is therefore very wise advice to draw out of the bosom of the Earth many sorts of Medicines as well for the conservations of those Persons that are in perfect health as for the ease and cure of those that are infirm and crazy In the mean time as Climates are very different th' one from th' other and as several Countries produce different species so Nature has distributed certain Plants and Drugs to some Countries which she has denied to others to the end that hereby she might the better favour the mutual commerce of all People and for the better cementing humane Society at which she alwaies seems particularly to aim since she has implanted the love and desire thereof in the minds of all except such as are ill natur'd and Men-haters who seem to be abhortives and monsters in Nature They therefore do seem to clash with Reason who in contempt of the sacred Rules of Divine Providence do hold that every Country ought to be content with the sole use of its own Drugs without seeking after those things wherewith Strangers and Foreigners may furnish us For is it not the meer effect of a capricious and peevish humour to desire without any reason to deprive Mankind of the use of those healthful productions wherewith Nature from all parts presents him and to hinder him from all advantages which he may thence expect Now amongst all the Drugs whereof Heaven has shewed it self liberal to Men there be three chiefly which in our time have required so great a vogue or credit and so particular an esteem through all Europe by the signal effects which they are daily found to produce in an infinite number of People who make use thereof with good success that I have thought it a thing of great importance to communicate to the publique some Discourses and Treatises made on this Subject compiled and gathered together in one Body that our Nation alwayes curious and greedy of no velty may understand the very depth and bottom of these abovesaid Drugs as well as others the use whereof has been but lately known amongst us yet they become more famousevery day than other by the frequent and dayly use we make of them and with a success which is no less wonderful than profitable those three Drugs which I mean and whereof I intend to treat here are COFFEE TEA and CHOCOLATE The two first are simple Drugs the latter is a mixt composition of several Drugs COFFEE grows in Arabia but the other two come from the Indies viz. the Tea from the East-Indies and the Chocolate or Cacao nut whereof it is chiefly made from the West-Indies The first peice I present you with in this Book is a curious Discourse of COFFEE done into French out of an Original Copy in Latine not long since composed by a very learned Physitian of Germany who would be nameless to the which I have added some draughts gathered out of the works of some learned Travellers on this same subject The Second Treatise consists of some particular Remarks extracted from the Dutch East-India Companies Embassy to the Emperour of China From a relation of the Voyage of the Bishop of Beryte to Cochinchina From the Voyage of Father Alexander of Rhodes And from the Medicinal Observations of Nicholas Tulpius a a Physician of Amsterdam The last peice is a Discourse of Chocolate made by a Spanish Physician named Antonio Colmenere of Ledesma I am perswaded that this little Collection will be well accepted by all good men who shall thereby be enabled to understand what excellent Vertues the Creator has distributed to these three foreign Drugs Which shall so much the more oblige them to admire and bless the Sovereign Author of all these Creatures and shall render them the more desirous to make good use thereof with continual Thanksgiving in all the Distempers wherewith they shall find themselves either threatned or really afflicted OF THE USE OF COFFEE ALthough the use and the eating of Beans were heretofore forbidden by Pythagoras because that their Flowers being spotted with a black Colour did represent a melancholly shape and the Souls of the dead that did dwell therein And though there be others that reject them affirming that the use of them dulls the senses and causes troublesome Dreams Yet because they serve us in the Nature of Victuals and Physick I shall not think my time and labour mis imployed if I communicate to the publick something on this Subject of Beans Nevertheless I don't mean to speak of our European Beans neither of the wilde nor those they sow whether they be Lupine or Kidney Beans or whatsoever sort of all which we were ever wont to make use either in the Kitchin or in the Drugsters Trade since that the most famous Physicians and Chyrurgions have employed them in the Cure of Maladies internal as well as external viz. In the Dropsie the Stone the Stoppage of the Urine the bloudy Flux Loosness Bruises and other Diseases Neither will I mention the Bean of Egypt which Dioscorides speaks of which the Crocodiles avoid as being destructive to their Eyes witness Pliny Neither of the Kidney Beans of Paludan Garet like the Cacao Nut whereof they make Chocolate named otherwise Coles by Clusius Nor will I treat of the purging Beans of Carthage or those of Ferdinand de Lopez of Castagneda which come from the Isle of St. Thomas I will speak for the present of a certain Bean of Arabia called Bon whereof they make a Drink termed Coffee which was heretofore in use amongst Arabians and Egyptians and which is now a dayes in very great request amongst the English French and Germanes The first that makes mention of the Property of this Bean under the name of Bunchum in the 9th Century after the Birth of our Saviour was Zachary Mahomet Rases commonly called Rhasio