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

D. QuElus

PREFACE

THE TABLE.

THE Natural HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE . Of the Division of this Treatise.

PART I. CHAP. I. The Description of the Cocao-Tree .

THE Natural HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE. PART II. Of the Properties of Chocolate.

THE Natural HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE . PART III. Of the Uses of Chocolate.

REMARKS Upon some Places of the Treatise upon Chocolate . Remark I.

MEDICINES In whose Composition Oil or Butter OF CHOCOLATE Is

Title: 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

Author: D. de Quelus

Language: English

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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.

Translated from the last Edition of the French,
By R. BROOKES, M. D.

The Second Edition.

LONDON:

Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane.
M dcc.xxx.

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Transcriber's note

THE Natural HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE:

THE
Natural HISTORY
OF
CHOCOLATE: