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Title page for the Indian Nectar.

The Indian Nectar, or a Discourse Concerning Chocolata Wherein the nature of the cacao-nut, and the other ingredients of the at composition, is examined, and stated according to the judgement and experience of the Indians, and Spanish writers, who lived in the Indies, and others; with sundry additioanl observations made in England: The ways of compounding and preparing chocolata are enquired into; its effects, as to its alimental and venereal quality, as well as medicinal (especially in Hypochondriacal Melancholy) are fully debated. etc. By Henry Stubbe Physician for His Majesty, and the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Windsor in the Island of Jamaica in the West-Indies.

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