Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke

Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma ( - 17th Cent.)
Translated by Capt. James Wadsworth (1604 - 1656)

The Author sings the praises of Chocolate. "By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New Disease; Fluxes, Consumptions, & Coughs of the Lungs, with sundry other desperate Diseases. By it also, Conception is Caused, the Birth Hastened and facilitated, Beauty Gain'd and continued."

Genre(s): Cooking

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Introduction and Dedications Esther
00:14:04
Play 02 The First and Second Points Esther
hefyd
00:27:13
Play 03 The Third and Fourth Points Laurie Anne Walden
00:16:05