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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19160	A curious treatise of the nature and quality of chocolate. VVritten in Spanish by Antonio Colmenero, doctor in physicke and chirurgery. And put into English by Don Diego de Vades-forte; Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate. English	Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio.; Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?	1640 (1640)	STC 5570; ESTC S108510	14,787	28

A Curious Treatise OF The Nature and Quality OF CHOCOLATE VVritten in Spanish by ANTONIO COLMENERO Doctor in Physicke and Chirurgery And put into English by Don Diego de Vades-forte Imprinted at London by J. Okes dwelling in Little St. Bartholmewes 1640. To the Right Honourable EDWARD Lord Viscount CONWAY and KILLULTAH Baron of RAGLEY Lord Marshall of the Army and Privy Counsellour of IRELAND and one of the Counsell of Warre to His MAIESTY of GREAT BRITTAINE MY LORD THis Stranger who hath newly learnt the English Tongue dares not venture himselfe in Publick without a Patronage which with all humblenesse he intreats of Your Lordship The great Affection Your Lordship hath shewne to the Spanish Language and the Benignity wherewith You are pleased to entertaine whatsoever relisheth of Art or Ingenuity makes him hope You will not refuse Your Favour and Protection to one of that Nation Nor knowes he where to shelter himselfe with so much safety the Eminence of Your Person and Judgement being of power to secure him from all petulant and malicious Exceptions Be pleased then my Lord to receive him with Favour So may those Excellent and Naturall Beauties of this happy Isle who shall have either Health or Pleasure from this Confection be ever serene and gratefull to Your Lordship presaging encrease of Honour and all Felicity answerable to the humble Devotion and hearty Prayers of Your Lordships most obedient and obliged Servant Don Diego V'ades-forte The Allowance of Melchor de Lara Physitian Generall for the Kingdome of Spaine I Doctor Melchor de Lara Physitian Generall for the Kingdome of Spaine at the command of Don John de Velasco and Asebedo Vicar Generall of Madrid have seene this Treatise of Chocolate composed by Antonio Colmenero of Ledesma which is very learned and curious and therefore it ought to be Licensed for the Presse it containing nothing contrary to good Manners and it cannot but be very pleasing to those who are affected to Chocolate In testimony whereof I have subscribed my Name in Madrid the 23. day of August 1631. Melchor de Lara The Testimoniall of John de Mena Doctor and Physitian to the King of Spaine I Iohn de Mena Physitian to his Maiesty and one of the Counsell Generall of the Inquisition have seene this Treatise of Chocolate composed by Doctor Antonio Colmenero of Ledesma by command of the Supreame Royall Court of Iustice which containeth nothing contrary to good Manners and the Subiect is very learnedly handled and with great Judgement and no doubt but it will give much pleasure and content to all those who are affected to Chocolate and therefore may be printed And in confirmation of this truth I have hereto subscribed my Name the 17. of Septemb. 1631. John de Mena Doctor in Physicke To the Reader THe number is so great of those who in these times drinke Chocolate that not onely in the Indies where this kinde of Drinke hath its orignall but it is also much used in Spaine Italy and Flanders and particularly at the Court And many doe speake diversly of it according to the benefit or hurt they receive from it Some saying that it is stopping Others and those the greater part that it makes one fat Others that the use of it strengthens the stomacke Others that it heats and burnes them And others say that although they take it every houre and in the Dog-dayes yet they finde themselves well with it And therefore my desire is to take this paines for the pleasure and profit of the publicke endeavouring to accommodate it to the content of all according to the variety of those things where with it may be mixt that so every man may make choise of that which shall be most agreeable to his disposition I have not seen any who hath written any thing concerning this drinke but onely a Physitian of Marchena who as it seemes writ onely by Relation holding an opinion that the Chocolate is stopping because that Cacao the principall Ingredient of which it is made is cold and dry But because this onely reason may not have power to keepe some from the use of it who are troubled with Opilations I thinke fit to defend this Confection with Philosophicall Reasons against any whosoever will condemne this Drinke which is so wholesome and so good knowing how to make the Paste in that manner that it may be agreeable to divers dispositions in the moderate drinking of it And so with all possible brevity I shall distinguish and divide this Treatise into foure poynts or Heads In the first place I shall declare what Chocolate is and what are the Qualities of Cacao and the other Ingredients of this Confection where I shall treate of the Receipt set downe by the aforesaid Author of Marchena and declare my opinion concerning the same The second point shall treat of the Quality which resulteth out of the mixture of these Simples which are put into it In the third place the manner of Compounding and how many wayes they use to drinke it in the Indies In the fourth and last place I shall treate of the Quantity and how it ought to be taken at what Time and by what Persons The first Point COncerning the first Point I say that Chocolate is a Name of the Indians which in our vulgar Castilian we may call a certaine Confection in which amongst other Ingredients the principall Basis and Foundation is the Cacao of whose Nature and Quality it is necessary first to treat And therefore I say according to the common received opinion that it is cold and dry à praedominio that is to say that though it be true that every Simple containes in it the Qualities of the foure Elements in the action and re-action which it hath in it yet there results another distinct Quality which we call Complexion This Quality or Complexion which ariseth of this Mixture is not alwayes one and the same neither hath it the effect in all the mixtures but they may be varied nine wayes foure Simple from whence one onely quality doth abound and foure Compounded from whence two Symbolizing qualities are predominant and one other which we call ad pondus which is of all these fore-said qualities which are in aequilibrio that is to say in equall measure and degree Of all these the Complexion of Cacao is composed since there arise two qualities which are cold and dry and in the substance that rules them hath it restringent and obstructive of the nature of the Element of the Earth And then as it is a Mixe and not a simple Element it must needes have parts correspondent to the rest of the Elements and particularly it partakes and that not a little of those which correspond with the Element of Aire that is Heat and Moysture which are governed by the Unctuous parts there being drawne out of the Cacao much Butter which in the Indies I have seene drawne out of it for the Face by the Criollas It may