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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

pasta en proportionada cantit●d de agua poco mas de medio quartillo y dos onsas de asucar una de Chocolate y cuesse en una olleta uno o dos hervores al fuego y le dan con un molinillo hasta llevantar espuma y quanto caliente se puede se bebe el que se bebe desta manera se tiene por mas sano no soi de parecer se t●me muchas vezes por que inquieta el cossimiento y carga el estomago de muchas crudesas El Cacao comido confitado por la tarde quieta el suenno des tod● la n●che Solo es bueno para los Soldados qu● estan de posta La mantera del Cacao es d● grande provecho para las inflammaciones y para qual quiera fuegos y quemaduras y sobre todo para el tiempo de las virvelas y serampion y ampollas y llagas securan untandose a menudo con a quel aceite para el principio aumento estado de la Erysipela es gran sedante y el major anodino para el dolor que causan sus costras y postillas para los labios abiertos y grietas de las manos y en elrostro para las enzias que manan sangre con dolor se les quita effectos bien contrarios pero mejor conocidos por la experientia That is in English as follows THe Cacao-nut is cold and dry in its temperament and thereby it hath parts adstringent wherewith it obstructs It is at this day the most rich Merchandize in the Indies and it is of so high an esteem that they settle by right of Primogeniture on their Eldest Sons Farms of Cacao which yield annually twelve thousand Duckets The Cacaonut is exceeding nourishing which makes People doubt concerning its particular temperament The Oyl that comes from it when it is boil'd is white and imbodies into Grains which seems rather to be a sort of butter it is to be extracted by roasting in a large earthen pot such as we bake meat in and it doth not well in a brass vessel The Nut is grinded in a Stone-Mortar with a Stone pestel both of them being hot and being made into a paste it is set on a Charcoal-fire● in a Pipkin and as it heats there rises up to the top the butter and an Oyl more red then the flame or fire of Charcoal both having but one taste In like manner it is roasted to make the Drink And as they grinde or beat it up in a Mortar they mix with the Paste some Anise-seeds Cinnamom and a few Cloves adding to three pounds of Cacao two ounces of Anise-seeds one of Cinnamom and half an ounce of Cloves with which they grind it on the Stone two or three times and then they put it into little boxes or they make little Cakes of one ounce-weight which is the proportion of Chocolata to make one draught This is the Royal Chocolata being the best and most wholesom and which is drunk by the Nobility and Persons of the best rank Others mix with it the flower of Maiz and in New-Spain they mix therewith the fine Powder of Bisket-bread but this sort of Chocolata la●ts not long to keep is not good but weak because the flower of Maiz which they put in is not boil'd and prepared and though the Maiz be prepared by roasting yet it yields but bad nourishment it begets Obstructions and a thousand Aches and Distempers In other parts they mix with the Cacao-paste some Achiote which serves to provoke Urine And the way of making their Chocolata-drink is this They scrape the Cacao-paste and dissolve it in a proportionate quantity of water to a little more then half a pint of water they put in two ounces of Sugar and one of the Paste of Cacao and they let it boil in a pot one or two woulms over the fire and then they mill it till it rise with a large froth they drink it as hot as they can possible and they that drink it so think it to be most wholesom And I am of the Opinion that it ought not to be drunk too often because it disturbs Concoction and loads the Stomach with many Crudities The Cacao-nut being made into Confects as Almond-confects are made being eaten at night makes Men to wake all night-long and is therefore good for Souldiers that are upon the Guard The Cacao-butter is excellently usefull in case of Inflammations and any scalds or burns and especially in the small-Pox and pustulous Tumours and eruptions from heat and Bruises they are cured by anointing therewith in the beginning encrease state or declination of the Erysipelas or St. Antonie's-fire It is a great cooler and allayer of pains created by Crusts or Scars upon Sores and Pimples and in chopped Lips and Hands and Face and Gums which bleed and are dolorous It produceth effects very various and contrary one to another which are best known by Experience An account of the Distillation of the Cacao-nut perform'd by Mr. Le Febure WE took eight Ounces of the Cacao-nut and without hulling them beat them to a gross powder and put them in a Retort we found the body so fix'd that with an ordinary Fire there came nothing over but a white liquour in a very small quantity so clear as water which we suppose to be the Phlegm Then we encreased the Fire to such an heat as if we had been to draw Spirit of Vitriol then there came over within the space of seventeen hours Operation first a Spirit that was as white as Milk in Vapours and whereas all other Spirits usually ascend in the Recipient these did descend and fall to the bottom and after that but with a great reverberating Fire such as he never put to any Vegetable there came over the Oyl which was red as blood but clear resembling any Tincture for clearness after it was cold it became thick like to the Oyl or Butter of Wax for consistence The Caput Mortuum weighed one ounce and seven drams of the Spirit there was about two ounces and the remainder Oyl three ounces and an half besides what was lost in filtrating and other contingencies Upon Separation the Spirit was as red as blood like to any exquisite Tincture of Santals however it were white in the first distilling which is to be attributed to its being commix'd in the distilling with the subsequent Oyl The Spirit was not very hot but exceeding penetrative and not unpleasant as to smell or taste as other Spirits drawn from blood or flesh are But however it had not any empyreuma nor had that odiousness which attends Spirits drawn from flesh yet had it an evident affinity but with a peculiar in mildness with flesh The Oyl was not very unpleasant but miraculously piercing the Volatile Salt of which there was a great quantity being unseparated and had an unexpressible Aromaticalness upon the tongue