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A61881	The Indian nectar, or, A discourse concerning chocolata the nature of cacao-nut and the other ingredients of that composition is examined and stated according to the judgment and experience of the Indian and Spanish writers ... its effects as to its alimental and venereal quality as well as medicinal (especially in hypochondrial melancholy) are fully debated : together with a spagyrical analysis of the cacao-nut, performed by that excellent chymist Monsieur le Febure, chymist to His Majesty / by Henry Stubbe ... ; Thomas Gage, Survey of the West-Indies. chap. 15 ...	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.	1662 (1662)	Wing S6049; ESTC R32737	101,338	202

of its symbolizing with our bodies then it is for Bread that by Chymical digestion it should in time be converted into blood as some tell us ☞ But to improve this Argument from reason a little it is the general ●●gue of the Indians and Indian writers wh●●h is no lesse then the testimony of uncontroverted Experience that this Cacao nut is very nourishing that it is multi nutrimenti is the assertion of Hernandez that it doth fatten being made into Chocolatl by the sole mixture of ●ocholt grains by frequent using it is likewise avowed by him Chocolatl paratum ex granis Pocholt Cacauatl aequâ mensurâ quod magnopere traditur corpora impinguare si frequentiùs eâ uti contingat And Dr. Iuanes de Barrios tells us that when they used in Guatemala the plain and simple Chocolata they found it very nourishing Es comoda pues ella sola suple el almuerso y algunas otras comidas por que con ella no es menester pan ni corne ni bebida y en un momento se hace y sacona lo que no ai en las otras In fine Io. de Laet tells us that it is very nourishing praeclarè nutrit and that the Indians by the help of Cacao nuts alone do subsist all day notwithstanding their great labour and heat Which is a truth well known to our Seamen and Land soldiers in and about Iamaica that by the help of the Cacao nut made into paste with Sugar and dissolved in water neither having nor wanting other food they usually sustain themselves sometimes for a long season and I have been assured that the Indian women do so feed on it eating it often that they scarce eat any solid meat ●wice in a w●ek yet feel no deca● of heat or strength All which is purely to be ascribed to the nourishing nature of ●●e Cacao nut and not to the other Ingredients since few of them are found endowed with any such quality nor is there intermixture with the Cacao nut of any long date the latter of which hath been already evidenced in the beginning of my discourse and I shall demonstrate the former before I conclude But however that the Cacao nut being grinded into a paste and dissolved in hot water be so nourishing yet have the Indians and Spaniards an ill opinion of the Nut to eat it whole and not in the usual manner of drink Which as it is told me by that ingenious Gentleman Major Fairfax who lived long in Iamaica and is newly returned so it is confirmed by the authority of Mr. Gage The Cacao if it be not stirred grinded and compounded to make the Chocolatta but be eaten as it is in the fruit as many Criolian and Indian women eat it it doth notably obstruct and cause stoppings and make them look of a broken pale and earthy colour as do those that eat earthen ware as pots or pieces of lime walls which is much used amongst the Spanish women thinking that pale and earthy colour though with obstructions and stoppings well becomes them Which Observation if it be true makes no more to the prejudice of the Cacao nut then it pr●judiceth Wheat Oat-meal or the like ●hat being eaten unmasticated or raw they do create or encrease the Green-sicknesse in maids I say if it be true for here in England the honourable Robert Boyle can bear me witnesse that several honourable Relations of his have eaten them for several years and continue to do so in the beauty of whose faces the world as much as it is interested therein can observe no diminution yea they professe it as a real and experienced truth that if at any time their heads ake to eat twelve of those nuts is a present remedy Another Lady protested to me that by the eating of those Nuts she feels Hypochondriacal vapours with which she is much troubled to be instantly allayed or appeased So far are they from participating of the usual Malignancy of Nuts to beget shortness of breath Obstructions and Head-aches To the former Experiencies I must add that they are observed to be more laxative then binding and that neither Mr. Boyle nor my self who did eat two pound once and great quantities since on purpose ever felt any heavyness or annoyance in the stomach Head or elsewhere Nor have I as neither do the others been curious to choose particular times to eat them in but at all hours and seasons Morning and Evening before and after meals all day as opportunity or other circumstances invited us thereto It may be then that the obstructions and discolou●ed complexion of the Women in the Indies eith●r is fabulous or to be attributed to their eating the Cacao Nuts whilst yet they are not sufficiently cured from their excrementitious moysture and humidity or that they eat another sort of Cacao Nuts then should be used in Chocolata for it is a great caution in the making Chocolata not only that the Nuts be well cured and dryed the older being accounted the best if not corrupted and decayed and that they come from Caracas and Soconusco not Guaiachil or the like but that they be of the sort call'd Clalcacahuatl especially whereas they they make Confects of Quauhpatlathli or Patlaxt which is not so usefull as the ordinary yet is used by the meaner sort Or if it must be understood of the right Cacao which they often eat roasted and made into Confects and their Women fall into Hysterical and Hypochon●riacal Distempers very difficult to cure which is avowed by Piso as an usual accident there as well as by Mr. Gage I can only say that it hath not yet happened so here and that however we ought to remember that old Arabian Maxim 〈◊〉 Physick Qui non bene masticat odit animam suam He that doth not chew his food well is an enemy to his own life Of so great Consequence is either that salival ferment in the mouth which inchoates digestion being impressed into the thing chewed or the due comminution and subtiliation o● food it being well known that the eating of any meat in great morsels and without chewing occasioneth the inconveniencies attributed to the eating of the Nuts not reduced into a paste by Grinding For it is observable that the Paste of the nut will melt in the mouth perfectly if it be well made but the nut will not that I could observe though well chewed And therefore it may seem a just caution to weak stomachs especially that their Chocolata be made with a Paste exquisitely made the Nut being first powder'd then searced finely and then carefully grinded And then there will be little or no inconvenience from the eating the Cacao Nut so order'd either in Pastills or Cakes provided the other Ingredients be not noxious I shall now speak of the qualities and temperament of the Cacao Nut. And indeed in Taste it is none of the most pleasant to those that are not used to